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# Bio
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## Occupation
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What do I do? It's hard to tell even to my peers, but I'll try...
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Simplest definition: I am a researcher working in the field of the life sciences. I got a Master's degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, but I've done all but biotechnology since my graduation. In the early days I worked "at the bench", doing what amounted to be work in biochemistry and cellular biology. Then I got a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine. Although that did not make me any smarter, it was a turning point in my career: I moved from the bench work, lab instruments and reagents to computers. In other words, I became involved in [bioinformatics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics).
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I am currently working as a senior scientist in [the Translational Genomics Unit](http://www.marionegri.it/en_US/home/research_en/dipartimenti_en/oncology/cancer_pharmacology/translational_genomic_unit) at the [IRCCS "Mario Negri" Pharmacological Research Institute](http://www.marionegri.it), a research no-profit, and I'm dealing with the intricacies of data analysis of DNA variation and structure applied to pre-clinical research (that means, before it actually hits the hospitals) in cancer, to investigate "molecular signatures" that could be used either for diagnosis or prognosis, or related to a response to pharmacological treatments.
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Getting into more details would make it very technical and boring, but if you're in the field, you can look up my name in specialized search engines like [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=I0TqfOgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works) if you're more interested. Or [you can view my resume](http://www.dennogumi.org/cv.pdf).
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## Free Software
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I'm quite involved in Free Software, in particular in [KDE](https://www.kde.org) and [openSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org), but also to other FOSS projects.
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#### KDE contributions
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With regards to KDE. I'm a member of the [KDE Community Forums](https://forum.kde.org) administration staff (also known as the "green guys"). Less frequently I contribute patches to KDE software, and even less frequently I write applications myself, such as [Danbooru Client]({{ site.url }}/projects/danbooru-client/).
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#### openSUSE contributions
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I'm a current member of the community KDE team. My involvement mostly is in packaging KDE software, be it either the KDE Frameworks, or the applications part of the KDE Release Service.
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#### Other FOSS projects
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I contributed significant code to the [bcbio-nextgen](https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbio-nextgen/) as part of my research work, in particular the initial implementation for tumor-normal paired somatic variant calling. Other smaller contributions to projects include [GEMINI](https://gemini.readthedocs.org) and [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org) (earlier versions).
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