Benjamin Dartigues
Software Engineer at Bordeaux Bioinformatics Center
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Dartigues is a software engineer with 12 years' experience specializing in bioinformatics tooling and NGS pipelines, currently building infrastructure and Galaxy tools at the Bordeaux Bioinformatics Center. He blends backend database work (ArangoDB, MongoDB) and web interfaces (Angular) with low-level porting and C++ design, having migrated a C# application into a C++ project for the COSMOS initiative. His open-source contributions include developing the SynDiva tool in the well-known Galaxy tools-iuc repository, adding sequence translation, PEP8/flake8 cleanups, and bioinformatics dependencies like Biopython. Trained in biomathematics and computational biology, he leverages domain knowledge to deliver practical pipelines such as virus integration site analysis. Colleagues rely on him for integrating research software into production-ready platforms and for bridging lab biology concepts with robust software engineering. An often-overlooked strength is his combined hands-on lab background and software dev experience, which helps him design tools that are both biologically meaningful and technically maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree (B average), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master's degree (B average), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Université de bordeauxBachelor Degree, Cell Biology and Physiology, Bachelor Degree, Cell Biology and Physiology at University of Bordeaux
English
Github Skills (6)
bioinformatics10
python10
biopython9
tooling9
matplotlib8
wrapper8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/tools-iuc
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:106 reviews, 23 commits, 18 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the development of the "SynDiva" tool, which involves analyzing fasta files and translating nucleic sequences into amino acid sequences. The commits include adding the tool, cleaning the code for PEP8 compliance, and addressing flake8 errors. The user also added necessary requirements, such as matplotlib and biopython, and made corrections to the code to improve functionality and address typos.
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cbib/linda
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Web application for managing experimental and environmental metadata for plant experiments
Contributions:49 PRs, 536 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 9 months
plantenvironmentalweb-applicationphenotypingnodejs
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