Yavuz Cakir is a research scientist at the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK)/German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). He received his master degree in Bioengineering mainly focusing on genomics variant calling pipelines, tools, and databases for hereditary cancers. During his MSc, he was involved in a research project at the University of Ferrara under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Volinia for a research visit. He worked as a bioinformatician in the industry and dealt with different kinds of clinical variant calling strategies and methods, mostly collaborating with medical doctors to interpret it. His research interest is especially concentrated on developing pipelines for divergent single-cell sequencing data in oncological studies.