🌍 Contributions to life-science and healthcare Projects
Links to open source bioinformatics, genomics, and translational data science projects, across academia, biotech, and clinical research.
🔹 Personal & Professional Links
- Google Scholar – Publications, Posters and citations
- Orcid - Connecting research and researchers
- GitHub – @kbillis
🔹 Projects in the News
- Nature Collections – Human Pangenome - NBC, CNN
- Tasmanian Devil Cancers (Cambridge Research) - BBC
- Tuatara Genome - ScienceNews
🔹 PhD Thesis
🔹 EMBL-EBI / Ensembl
- Human Pangenome Project
- Ensembl Analysis GitHub
- Ensembl GRCh38 Human Annotation
- Ensembl first Clade Annotation
- Illumina Human BodyMap 2.0
- ncRNA Gene Annotation
- Annotation of immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes
- Google Summer of Code – Ensembl
🔹 Joint Genome Institute (JGI, DOE)
🔹 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR)
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RheumaFacts
Epidemiology and advocacy initiative in rheumatology - 🎥 Watch Talk -
Basic and Translational research (ATAI)
Insights for autoimmune diseases - 🎥 Watch Talk -
IMPACT Survey
Patient-centered data collection for policy and research - 🎥 Watch Talk
🔹 Transition Bio
- Transition Bio Website
Work on biomolecular condensates, drug discovery pipelines, and machine learning with omics data
🔹 Workshops & Training
- User Meeting Workshops (JGI)
- Introduction to RNA-seq and Functional Interpretation (2013-2021)
- RNA-seq and Functional Interpretation (Virtual)
- Livestock Genomics Workshop
- Ensembl API & Gene Annotation Workshop Taiwan (2016)
- Tutors for Host - microbe interactions (hosmic) MSc
- IMBBC Talk: Using Transcriptomics in Ensembl (2021)
- PhD Defense Presentation – Aristotle University (2020)
- Hbio: Hellenic Bioinformatics - Investigation of induced genetic variation at the transcriptional level under stress conditions in Bacteria & Gene annotation in Ensembl (2018)
🔹 Other activities
- H.bioinfo Hellenic Bioinformatics - Founding member
- I am broadly curious about business and other aspects. One example is trading - Work in progress