Jan-Peter Nap

Jan-Peter Nap serves as an External employee in the BIOS Applied Bioinformatics group at Wageningen University & Research, holding a doctoral engineering title (dr.ir.). His interdisciplinary work bridges computational biology and sustainable energy systems through 123 research outputs including 71 articles, 17 reports, and 12 book chapters.

Research Focus: His primary investigations span plant genomics (gene regulation in root nodule development, Solanaceous genome analysis), bioinformatics tool development (pyPaSWAS for GPU-accelerated sequence alignment), and renewable energy systems (economic/environmental analysis of bio-power-to-methane conversion). This tripartite approach integrates molecular biology with environmental engineering and high-performance computing.

Publication Trends: Recent work (2017-2020) demonstrates dual specialization: computational biology publications focus on sequence alignment algorithms and plant phenotyping metadata standards, while energy research examines methane production feasibility. Both strands emphasize practical implementation with measurable environmental benefits and Levelised Cost of Energy metrics.

Supervision & Projects: He co-supervised two major PhD projects:

• Low-cost high performance biocomputing (2013-2019) developing GPU-accelerated genomic analysis tools
• Solanaceous genome bioinformatics (2010-2014) examining gene family relationships in crop plants

Research Infrastructure: As core member of BIOS Applied Bioinformatics, he contributes to Wageningen's computational biology ecosystem focusing on agricultural applications, with demonstrated impact through 17+ Scopus citations for his renewable energy work and adoption of phenotyping data standards.