Scouting report
Bioinformatics & R/Shiny specialist with adopted packages
assessed from open-source footprint
Niels is a domain specialist who builds genuinely-adopted scientific tooling in R — geneviewer (99★, gene-arrow maps) and NGLVieweR (protein-structure visualization for R/Shiny) — backed by 218 total stars and a perfect consistency record. As a freelance bioinformatician and Shiny developer, he's the rare profile here with deep, credible expertise in scientific and data visualization. Ideal for biotech, research, or data-heavy R/Shiny work.
Authorship & open source
What they build
Industry experience
- Developer Tools
- Fintech & Payments
- Web & CMS
Signal breakdown
218
top repo 99
20
9% forks
48
7.5 yr
13
Active
25% stale
Strengths
- Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on geneviewer
- 520 commits in the past year
- Original builder — 20 of their own repositories
- 218 stars earned across projects
- Ships to production — 13 live demos
- Consistently active, low abandonment
- Data / ML focus with Frontend
About
Skills
- R
- Shiny
- Python
- Ngl
- Nglviewer
- Pdb
- Protein Data Bank
- Shiny Applications
Featured work
geneviewer
An R package designed for drawing gene arrow maps
- R
- Genetics
by nvelden
NGLVieweR
Visualize and interact with Protein Data Bank (pdb) and structural files in R and Shiny
- R
- Ngl
- Nglviewer
- Pdb
- Protein Data Bank
by nvelden
Employee Directory CRUD
An example CRUD application using the Shiny framework
- R
by nvelden
Sql Table
Persistent data storage in shiny using SQL
- R
by nvelden
shinyNGLVieweR
Shiny UI for the NGLVieweR package
- R
by nvelden
shinyblocks
Composable modern UI blocks for Shiny dashboards, inspired by shadcn/ui.
- R
by nvelden