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Melbourne, Australia, Victoria Australia
Occupation
Lead Bioinformatican at Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
Industry
Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals
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About
Torsten trained as a computer scientist, specialising in image processing. Over the last decade he has retrained in the field of bioinformatics, and now heads a research group specialising in high throughput sequencing and microbial genomics.
Specialties: Perl, C, Linux, JavaScript, Next-generation sequencing, genomics.
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