People
Manuel Lera-Ramírez
University College London - Lead developer
During my PhD I used fission yeast genetics to study the mitotic spindle, combining experimental and computational approaches. I grew increasingly interested in FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data in the context of model organism genetics, and decided to join PomBase, the model organism database for fission yeast, where I developed quality control pipelines and worked as a biocurator. Now I am working on OpenCloning, an Open Source web application to plan and document cloning and genetic engineering. I am also an active contributor and maintainer of pydna.
Collaborators
Björn Johansson
University of Minho - Collaborator
I focus on metabolic engineering of lipid metabolism in baker’s yeast, S. cerevisiae ultimatily to create sustainable sources of specialized fatty acids. I am also interested in open science, specifically the creation and maintenance of complete and verifiable genetic design documents. I am the original creator of pydna, a Python package used by OpenCloning that enables simulation of cloning strategies.
Daniel García-Ruano
University of Bordeaux - Collaborator
I studied experimental evolution in fission yeast during my PhD, gaining interest in computational approaches and reproducibility in science. I started collaborating with OpenCloning as a testing user to later dive in the code and implement new use cases. Currently, I am a non-tenured associate professor in Cell Biology at the University of Bordeaux, with a research intereset in machine learning for transcript classification.