Benoit Ballester
Chargé De Recherche Hors Classe Researcher In Bioinformatics
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolBenoit Ballester is a senior Inserm researcher (CRHC, HDR) in bioinformatics with nine years of focused experience leading regulatory genomics and large-scale multi-omics integration. He developed ReMap, a widely used transcription factor binding atlas, and uncovered dual-function exonic enhancers, revealing regulatory information embedded within coding sequences (Nature Communications). Benoit combines functional genomics, evolutionary insights and data engineering to map how regulatory signals are located and evolve across the genome, producing community resources and integrative analyses (Cell Genomics). Beyond research, he shapes national and European science through expert evaluation (Horizon Europe, MSCA), program leadership and workshop organization, and co-founded the regional BIOTIC bioinformatics network to strengthen local scientific infrastructure. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning large public datasets into enduring community tools that directly enable downstream discovery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), Genomics - Bioinformatics, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), Genomics - Bioinformatics at Aix-Marseille UniversityBSC, Genetics, BSC, Genetics at University of Leeds
Github Skills (45)
r-package10
r9
remap9
chip-seq9
plot9
android9
bioinformatics9
macfuse9
nodejs9
nextcloud9
obsidian9
webdav8
evernote8
mongodb8
dropbox8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
remap-cisreg/remap-pipeline
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
As the ReMap project expands dramatically and regulatory catalogs for other species are requested, it becomes essential to enable joint efforts between the ReMap team and external teams. This is essential for future collaborative production efforts. Briefly, our pipelines uses SnakeMake either in a Conda or Singularity environment depending on the HPC resources, where Torque and Slurm managers are both supported
Contributions:120 commits, 22 pushes, 3 comments in 6 months
condahpcslurmsnakemake
remap-cisreg/remap-rest
Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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