Uri Neri

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be found trying to convince others that RNA viruses are actually interesting and not just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our code would stop crashing...