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magnus manske magnusmanske de magnus manske biochemist who kept writing software instead principal scientific software engineer wellcome sanger institute cambridge uk tib hannover a t g a c c g t t a g c g g a t c c t a a g c t g c a a g g t c a g a a t t c g g t a c c t a g c a t g g c t a a g c c g t t a g c a c g t t g a c c t a g g a t c a g t t c g a t c c a ecori site in case you were wondering about myself you expect some honest well balanced information about myself on my own page seriously better check out wikipedia instead the short version now working as a software developer for the tib university of hannover since january 2025 then scientific software engineering at the wellcome sanger institute since april 2007 malaria then parasites and microbes does turns large awkward genomic datasets into software that biologists can use without noticing there is software involved writes rust php javascript c sql and a lot more in roughly that order of current enthusiasm known for the first version of mediawiki gentle an unreasonable number of wikipedia and wikidata data tools training phd in biochemistry university of cologne 2006 magna cum laude the thesis was a piece of software which should have been a warning sign science i am a biochemist working in bioinformatics at the wellcome sanger institute in cambridge i joined in 2007 to work on malaria genomics and moved to the parasites and microbes programme in 2019 where i build and lead work on the interfaces that let collaborators actually get at the data i write fast code web code and the occasional scientific publication the full list lives on orcid roughly twenty years of shipping tools to scientists who did not ask for tools they asked for answers it teaches you things about requirements gathering gentle as my phd thesis i wrote gentle a free multi purpose molecular biology tool despite wide usage including nasa and despite being open source i eventually ran out of the one resource nobody grants you time thanks to the good folks at synbiota it was reborn as a pure web application with the code on github and now there is a third one in rust gentle_rs under active development it is a dna and cloning workbench for both interactive use and automation built around a single deterministic engine shared by the gui the cli and the scripting interfaces it plans and reviews gibson assemblies runs pcr mutagenesis primer pair and qpcr design imports genbank embl and snapgene records and renders protocol cartoons lineage graphs dotplots and gels straight from project state so the figures are generated rather than drawn by hand three implementations of the same idea across twenty years call it persistence call it a diagnosis wikipedia wikidata i have been involved with wikipedia as both article and software author since before there was wikipedia i wrote one of the first versions of the software that became mediawiki plus the cite extension that put references in angle brackets where they belong they even named a day after me which i mention now to get it over with these days it is mostly infrastructure quickstatements mix n match and its several thousand catalogues petscan reasonator and a long tail of other tools that quietly move a large fraction of the edits on wikidata there is a blog about them mix n match and quickstatements both picked up coolest tool awards in 2019 wikishootme in 2021 petscan in 2022 and mediawiki received a usenix stug award in 2010 i am told this counts as external validation talk to me about any of it on en wp de wp wikidata or commons elsewhere github the code warts and all codeberg more code just what you need orcid all my publications linkedin hire me and pay me more money mastodon magnusmanske wikis world researchgate something with science people flickr look pretty pictures and probably some more which i forgot no farcebook though i hate farcebook contact if you cannot figure out how to contact me from all the links on this page chances are you have nothing to say that would interest me darwinian spam filter no trackers no cookies no javascript it loads fast because there is nothing in it german lawyers from the last millennium require me to have an impressum