Ivana Piližota

Ivana Piližota is a seasoned Bioinformatics Developer at the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI since December 2020, previously serving as a PhD Candidate in Bioinformatics at University College London from December 2013 to May 2020. Collaborative efforts with Bayer Crop Science NV led to significant advancements in clustering algorithms, achieving a fourfold speedup in protein-protein comparisons. Ivana's expertise includes pipeline development for improving fragmented genome annotations as an Invited Researcher at the University of Lausanne, experience in gene assembly during a tenure as a Research Student at Bayer Crop Science, and contributions to gene tree reconstruction at the University of Oxford. Early career accomplishments include an internship at the Bioinformatics Institute, focusing on exploratory analysis of the human transcriptome. Educational credentials include a PhD from UCL, an MSc in Mathematical Statistics, and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb. Technical skills encompass Python, Bash, Git, Linux systems, and HPC clusters.

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European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI

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Working at EMBL-EBI gives you the opportunity to focus your energy and skills on something that really matters: using technology to contribute to discoveries that benefit humankind. We empower researchers everywhere to realise the potential of ‘big data’ in biology, and build sophisticated tools for exploring life at the atomic level.


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