Denis Bertrand
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Lunel, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Bertrand is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with over a decade of hands-on experience building genomic analysis pipelines and statistical methods across academic and industry settings. He has led teams and large-scale projects—from cancer driver discovery with the TCGA Pan-Cancer Atlas to tumor sequencing pipelines and hybrid short/long-read assembly—bridging biology, technology and computer science. At the Genome Institute of Singapore he managed bioinformaticians and interns while analyzing thousands of samples, and more recently has translated that expertise into product-focused roles at SeqOne. Trained as a PhD computer scientist, he combines algorithmic rigor (phylogeny and genome-evolution models) with practical sequencing workflows (Illumina, RNA-seq, Nanopore), making him adept at turning complex biological questions into robust, scalable analyses. An understated strength is his track record of moving methods from research prototypes into production-ready pipelines used for clinical and large-cohort studies.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Montpellier
French, English
Github Skills (3)
assembler9
opera7
hybrid5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CSB5/OPERA-MS
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
OPERA-MS - Hybrid Metagenomic Assembler
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 9 months
assemblerhybridopera
CSB5/driver_evaluation
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 13 pushes in 2 days
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