Riccardo Berutti

Riccardo Berutti, responsible of NGS Bioinformatics @CRS4, works since 2009 in the next generation sequencing field. He developed some among the first NGS analysis pipelines and quality control tools. Riccardo started his career in the Sardinian Genome Study stemming from the ProgeNIA project, on which he worked for his PhD thesis. His results were published with the collaboration on the journal Science. In 2013 he moved to the Helmholtz Center in Munich for his postdoc with Prof. Thomas Meitinger and Dr. Tim Strom and continued at the Institute of Human Genetics (IHG) of the University Hospital of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he was head of the Bioinformatics group till December 2023 and so far produced around 60 peer reviewed publications. At the IHG he managed NGS data analysis applications for research and diagnostics. In the clinical field he acquired a strong experience as software developer, in process control, and in quality management, contributing to the ISO15189 certification of the Institute as a diagnostic laboratory, covering laboratory processes and the bioinformatic analyses developed in house. He is responsible of the development of the open source software EVAdb, for the clinical interpretation of the variants from human genomes and exomes and RNAseq. He also manage the development of their associated pipelines and of the EVAdb LIMS. He will continue the development of these open source tools in a collaborative form at CRS4.