Sven Warris

Sven Warris is a researcher at BIOS Applied Bioinformatics within Wageningen University & Research. His work spans bioinformatics, genomics, and microbiome studies, with a focus on developing computational tools for genomic and metagenomic data analysis.

• PhD in Bioinformatics (2013-2019), Wageningen University

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics tool development for high-throughput data
• Gut microbiome analysis in insects
• Symbiotic virus colonization in parasitoids
• Metagenomic approaches to disease-suppressive soils

Scientific Contributions:

• Developed Pacasus for palindromic sequence correction
• Contributed to chromosomal assembly of parasitic wasp genomes
• Studied gut bacteria impact on arbovirus transmission
• Advancing functional amplicon sequencing methodologies

Projects:

• Microservices to connect genetic maps to (pan)genomes (2019)
• Low-cost high-performance biocomputing (PhD project, 2013-2019)