Jean-christophe Lachance
Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Consultant
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJean-Christophe Lachance is a computational biologist and consultant with a PhD in bioinformatics and nine years of experience applying data science, modeling and cloud infrastructure to accelerate biological discovery. He has driven systems- and metabolic-biology projects at Ginkgo Bioworks, built diagnostic and API-driven bioinformatics platforms for a provincial health system, and now develops scalable ML and pipeline solutions for perturbation biology and drug development. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he automates benchmarking, integrates diverse biological data, and ships interactive dashboards and LLM/RAG tools that emulate expert decision-making to speed variant interpretation. Trained across Sherbrooke and UCSD, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering—plus a background in music—that informs a disciplined, creative approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Université de SherbrookeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Performance, General, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Performance, General at UQAM | Université du Québec à MontréalDouble-DEC, science et musique, Double-DEC, science et musique at Cégep de Sherbrooke
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
genome10
coefficients10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
cvs9
sequence-alignment9
phylogenetics9
metabolic-models9
sbml9
modeling9
protein-structure9
computational-biology9
systems-biology9
cobra8
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jclachance/iJL208
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:14 commits in 2 months
jclachance/BOFdat
May 2017 - May 2020
Generate biomass objective function stoichiometric coefficients for genome-scale models from experimental data
Contributions:2 releases, 295 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 1 month
genomebiomassgenome-scale-modelscoefficientsscale
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