I'm a Microbiology graduate from North South University with an interest in bioinformatics, molecular biology, genomics, transcriptomics, and structural bioinformatics.
I enjoy combining biological knowledge with computational approaches to investigate molecular mechanisms, analyze biological data, and develop reproducible research workflows.
- 🧬 Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- 🧪 Molecular Biology
- 🦠 Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- 🧬 Genomics & Transcriptomics
- 🧫 Microbial Genomics
- 🧩 Structural Bioinformatics
- 📊 Biological Data Analysis
R Python Bash Linux
Salmon FastQC MultiQC QIIME 2 DADA2
BLAST MAFFT ClustalW MUSCLE MEGA AlphaFold2 ColabFold
Git GitHub Conda Pixi
Redefining GOLT1B: A Dual-Pass SNARE-Like Protein with a Kingdom-Specific Q/R Transition and Structural Basis for IFITM3 Interaction
My undergraduate research focused on the sequence, evolutionary, structural, and functional characterization of GOLT1B, combining comparative sequence analysis, phylogenetics, domain analysis, membrane topology prediction, subcellular localization prediction, and protein structure modeling.
Methods & Tools:
- Sequence retrieval & comparative analysis
- BLAST
- Multiple sequence alignment
- Phylogenetic analysis
- Ancestral state reconstruction
- Domain & motif analysis
- Transmembrane topology prediction
- Protein localization prediction
- AlphaFold2 / ColabFold
I'm currently building reproducible workflows for RNA-seq data analysis, including:
- FASTQ quality control
- Transcript quantification
- Salmon indexing & quantification
- MultiQC-based quality assessment
- R-based downstream analysis
- Differential gene expression
- Data visualization
B.Sc. in Microbiology North South University 2021 – 2026
**Cum Laude
This GitHub profile contains projects involving:
📁 Bioinformatics workflows 📊 Transcriptomic data analysis 🧬 Molecular sequence analysis 🧩 Structural bioinformatics 🦠 Microbiology research 💻 Reproducible computational pipelines
- LinkedIn: [www.linkedin.com/in/mantuka-masnoon-umama]
- Email: [mantukaumama@gmail.com]
- GitHub: @mmasnoon