Francesco is a computational biologist investigating soil and plant-associated microbiomes through metagenomics and large-scale cross-biome data analysis.

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Brief summary of professional experience

Francesco's work is focused on the bioinformatic analysis of soil and plant-associated microbial communities. He is using high-performance computing environments to process large-scale shotgun metagenomic datasets, while statistical analysis and data visualisation are mainly performed in R. His experience includes benchmarking bioinformatic pipelines for highly diverse soil microbial communities, evaluating the performance of tools and metrics at different analytical stages, and investigating how effectively metagenomic data capture microbial community diversity. He also works with amplicon sequencing data and study the rhizosphere microbiome, with particular interest in plant growth-promoting microbial traits.