hexylena

Post Doc Clinical Bioinformatician researching fetal diseases.

Bioinformatician (PhD), Biochemist (BSL2 certified), Systems administrator (linux, HPC, OpenStack), Educator (Docent HBO), DBA (PostgreSQL), and Software Developer

I like video games, sewing, and occasionally I do CTFs with my girlfriend. probably just UXO.

Galaxy Training: A powerful framework for teaching! (2023)
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY - Latest update of the GTN platform showcasing excellent statistics, improved FAIRness, and automated slides to videos.
Galaxy single-cell & spatial omics community update: Navigating new frontiers in 2025 (2025-10)
Cell Genomics - Single Cell and Spatial Omics Community (SPOC) presents 175 tools, 120 training resources, and 300k jobs.
The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2022 update (2022)
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH - GTN improvements are announced alongside Galaxy platform improvements.
Galactic Circos: User-friendly Circos plots within the Galaxy platform (2020)
GIGASCIENCE - my partner and I present our work putting one of the most complicated genomics visualisation tools in a more user-friendly interface.
Galaxy and Apollo as a biologist-friendly interface for high-quality cooperative phage genome annotation (2020)
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY - We fuse a real time annotation platform with a FAIR workflow system to support a dynamic undergraduate research experience environment.

ERASMUS MC
Department of Pathology, PhD student
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, BSc Biochemistry

Here are some assorted blog posts

Automatic SD Card Reading, Uploading, Cleaning
UX is in fact important. Here is some acceptable UX.
Streamlining
efficiency with your back to the wall
Producing nice(r) maps for 3d printing
Maps with maperative
Simple Sleep Efficiency Calculator
Math with hours is hard and girls¹ be eepy
Project Name Generator 3: The Soundexening
Fixing the bugs in the old implementation, making it more useful.
DRYAD/KTC 1400
Because the other website has bad css and it's useful to have a nice one.
Project Name Generator 2: Actually Reverse Soundex
Implements a silly idea, generating a random soundex and then generating a word based on that.
Project Name Generator
Implements the consonant-vowel based name generation
hexylena.css
ugliness as a service
SelfD
it's statsd but for urself
Thesis Art
The art for my thesis is made known
REmapper Update 3
Snippets from discussions with a colleague over remapper planning
Codenames Duet Card Generator
Generate random but functional Codenames Duet cards that you and a partner can use remotely, based on a shared seed.
Number Station
A javascript Numbers Station based on the audio file extracted from a Gerät 23620, used in real number stations.
Domain Warping
Another version of domain warping
Domain Warping
Learning to use GLSL for domain warping
Saturn
Generate planet with rings
City Sketch
Simple cubic cityscapes based off an r/generative post
RGB Noise 2
a second, improved version of RGB noise
RGB Noise
RGB noise inspired by a reddit post.
MultiScaleTruchet Tiles
Javascript implementation of MultiScale Truchet tiles
REmapper Ideas / Planning
Ideas for future research and work. Classic procgen blogpost where she wants to reinvent the world from first principles and wants everyone to think that was a good idea.
REmapper Update 2
Another update adding CTF modes with flags and bases and some wip around flavouring
REmapper Update 1
Remapper update fixing unbounded execution and adding {2,4}-way mirroring
REmapper
Initial development post for remapper, my RedEclipse Map generation algorithm
Procedural Dungeon Generation Link Collection
Collection of potentially useful links concerning dungeon generation algorithms.
Dungeon Generation
Dungeon generation based on a blog post, non-working.
Bitesofcode's Terrain Generation
Pretty landscapes based on a random wordpress blogpost
Circos ThreadTone
Converted the thread tone repo to work with circos.

hexylena@galaxians.org

0000-0001-9760-8992