Roman Špánek

I am bioinformatician at the Biology Centre CAS in České Budějovice. I have experience with processing biological data, particularly amplicon sequencing, shotgun sequencing, metagenomics, RNASeq, modelling of metabolism based on 16S rRNA gene sequences. I attended long term work placement at the University of Bergen, Norge and Deakin University, Australia. My research focuses mainly on processing of biological data sets, revealing hidden patterns in combined experimental datasets (e.g. NGS, environmental, qPCR) by use of advance statistics, machine learning and datamining techniques. Besides my scientific activities I teach at Technical University in Liberec informatics topics and I have been supervisor of two Ph.D. students.

Education and Academic Positions

• since 2018 PhD at Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
• 2003 MSc in Mechatronics at Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

Research Interests

Teaching Interests

• Database systems, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
• Software engineering, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
• Programming in C/C++, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
• Java programming, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

Services

• NGS data processing (16S), alpha diversity, beta diversity, regressions etc.
• Advance statistics on (biological) datasets – hidden pattern recognition
• Whole genome assembly, annotation and announcement
• Metagenomics
• RNASeq
• Metabolic inference on 16S rRNA gene libraries
• Single cell sequences processing

Scientific Activities

• Since 2012 – Chair of student research forum of SOFSEM conference
• 2005 – 12007 – Member of Research & Development Centre (RDC) Vodafone as RDC expert