I'm Gert Thijs, an experienced product manager and application engineer in software development and data analysis in life sciences. I like combining my broad technological expertise with an ever present drive to explore new things to come up with valuable solutions for the customers. Having experience in working with large complex data in multi-disciplinary environments, my main strength is in absorbing and analysing information from multiple sources and domains and bringing this knowledge together to come to a practical solutions quickly.
As a genomics service provider building your clinical decision support tool to assist in the interpretation of genetic variants for early cancer prognosis and therapy, you have access to patient genomic profiles but need help integrating and correlating this data with relevant clinical databases (e.g., ClinVar, Cosmic, PubMed) and developing algorithms to prioritise these variants based on causality and actionability.
As biotech startup developing a platform to identify novel biomarkers for early disease detection, you have access to various experimental datasets, eg. sequencing data, gene expression profiles or proteomics data. However, you lack the expertise and resources to integrate these datasets with relevant public databases and literature to uncover those meaningful patterns needed to strengthen your product portfolio.
As a pharmaceutical startup working on a drug discovery platform that aims to identify and optimise novel therapeutic compounds for specific targets, you have preliminary compound libraries but need assistance in analysing these libraries, integrating them with public chemical databases (e.g., ChEMBL, PubChem), and developing predictive models for compound activity to improve the quality and applicability of this library.