Marcel Ramos Pérez

Marcel Ramos Pérez maʁ.sɛl ˈra.mos ˈpe.ɾes

Senior Data Scientist

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Biography

Marcel Ramos is a Senior Data Scientist at the Waldron Lab at the CUNY School of Public Health and a Bioconductor Core Team member. His research interests include implementation of genomic data structures and representations within the R / Bioconductor S4 ecosystem. He is involved in the development and maintenance of over 24 R / Bioconductor and CRAN packages including MultiAssayExperiment and BiocManager.

Interests
  • Bioconductor
  • Genomic Software Infrastructure
  • Software Development
  • Reproducible Research
Education

  • MPH in Public Health, 2015

    CUNY Hunter SPH

  • BA in Psychology (French minor), 2010

    CUNY City College

Skills

Technical
R / Bioconductor Packages
Genomic Data Science
Meta programming

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Senior Data Scientist
Research Foundation CUNY
January 2014 – Present New York, NY
 
 
 
 
 
Lead Biostatistician
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
January 2016 – August 2024 Buffalo, NY
 
 
 
 
 
Adjunct Lecturer
CUNY School of Public Health
January 2016 – July 2023 New York, NY

Certificates

Workshop in Online Instruction
Central Michigan University Apr 2019 – May 2019
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Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics Workshop
El Nodo Nacional de Bioinformatica y la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Bioinformatica Jul 2017 – Jul 2017
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Additional Certificates
See LinkedIn for more Jan 2017
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Recent Publications

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Charlotte Soneson, Lori Shepherd, Marcel Ramos, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Johannes Rainer, Hervé Pagès, Vincent J Carey (2025). Eleven quick tips for writing a Bioconductor package. PLoS Comput. Biol..

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Samuel D Gamboa-Tuz, Marcel Ramos, Eric Franzosa, Curtis Huttenhower, Nicola Segata, Sehyun Oh, Levi Waldron (2025). Commonly used compositional data analysis implementations are not advantageous in microbial differential abundance analyses benchmarked against biological ground truth. bioRxiv.

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Asya Khleborodova, Samuel D Gamboa-Tuz, Marcel Ramos, Nicola Segata, Levi Waldron, Sehyun Oh (2024). lefser: implementation of metagenomic biomarker discovery tool, LEfSe, in R. Bioinformatics.

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Sehyun Oh, Kai Gravel-Pucillo, Marcel Ramos, Michael C Schatz, Sean Davis, Vincent Carey, Martin Morgan, Levi Waldron (2024). AnVILWorkflow: A runnable workflow package for Cloud-implemented bioinformatics analysis pipelines. F1000Res..

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Jenny Drnevich, Frederick J Tan, Fabricio Almeida-Silva, Robert Castelo, Aedin C Culhane, Sean Davis, Maria A Doyle, Ludwig Geistlinger, Andrew R Ghazi, Susan Holmes, Leo Lahti, Alexandru Mahmoud, Kozo Nishida, Marcel Ramos, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, David J H Shih, Laurent Gatto, Charlotte Soneson (2024). Learning and teaching biological data science in the Bioconductor community. arXiv [cs.CY].

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