Collaborations
Bring me a gut microbiome question. Let’s work on it together.
If you are a researcher with an interesting human gut microbiome question and a limited budget, I would like to help. I can give you free access to QuestOmics so we can work on your data together, the same platform I use for everything else.
Who I’m hoping to hear from
This is for you if…
I started QuestOmics because the analysis should not be the hard part of microbiome research. If money is what stands between you and a clean answer, that is exactly the kind of project I want to take on.
You are a PhD student or postdoc with a dataset and no bioinformatics support.
You run a clinical study and have a patient cohort waiting to be analyzed.
Your lab does not have a dedicated bioinformatician.
You have an interesting question and a limited budget.
What I bring to the collaboration
A platform built for work you can publish
You bring the question and the samples. I bring a platform that runs the analysis properly and gives you results you can defend in a paper.
Every run is sealed and version-pinned, so the result still holds when a reviewer asks you to reproduce it.
Each analysis runs in a versioned container, and the exact tools and versions are recorded for you at run time.
Taxonomy, AMR and resistome, functional pathways, metabolic models, differential abundance, cohort comparison, and microbial networks.
See how your study fits a target journal, and draft a cover letter and reviewer suggestions when it is time to submit.
Publication figures, tables, and a Materials & Methods section you can paste straight into your draft.
Every result comes paired with cited, peer-reviewed context through Gut Assistant, so the interpretation points you to real papers.
How it works
Three steps, no paperwork to start
You write to me
Tell me your question, what kind of data you have and roughly how many samples, and where you are with it. A few sentences is plenty to start.
We scope it together
I set you up with access and we agree on what to run and what a finished result looks like for your study. There are no long forms or contracts to sign before we even talk.
We analyze and write it up
You get reproducible results and manuscript-ready outputs, and we sort out credit fairly before anything goes into a paper.
What I ask in return
A real collaboration, agreed up front
This is a real collaboration, so I ask for the things collaborators normally share. Fair credit on whatever we publish together, as co-authorship or an acknowledgement, whatever fits the norms of your field. And honest feedback along the way, because it makes the platform better for the next person. We agree on scope and credit before we start, so there are no surprises later.
Let’s collaborate
Tell me about your project.
Send me your question, confirm it is human gut microbiome data, and add a rough sample count and any timeline you are working toward. That is enough for me to tell you how I can help.
or copy svalenzuela@questomics.app
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Sandro