Magnus Manske
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| Born | Heinrich Magnus Manske 24 May 1974 Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
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| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Thesis | GENtle, a free multi-purpose molecular biology tool (2006) |
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Heinrich Magnus Manske (born 24 May 1974) is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the software.
Manske was born in Cologne, Germany.
Manske studied biochemistry at the University of Cologne and graduated in 2006 with a PhD; his dissertation was an open source tool for molecular biology called GENtle.
In 2012, Manske was co-author of a paper published in Nature that demonstrated new ways to identify areas where malaria parasites are evolving, and described techniques for mapping malarial drug resistance. The researchers developed a technique to extract the malaria parasite DNA directly from the blood, which minimizes errors in sequencing.
As a student, Manske was one of the most active contributors to the Nupedia project, submitting content on biology topics and developing tools and extensions for Nupedia. Later, unhappy with the existing software's limitations, Manske developed one of the first versions of what later became . His new version of the software was installed in 2002.
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