Jean-sébastien Gounot
Research Fellow at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Singapore
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Top SchoolJean-sébastien Gounot is a research fellow and bioinformatics engineer based in Singapore with 10 years’ experience in population genomics, sequencing data analysis and metagenomics. He holds a PhD from Université de Strasbourg where he led comparative genomics studies combining Illumina and Nanopore data, and now applies that expertise to metagenomic workflows at A*STAR. A primarily Python-focused developer, he authors several open-source libraries for population-genomic analyses and has a strong interest in data visualization that makes complex genomic signals more interpretable. His profile blends rigorous academic training with production-oriented tooling, and he’s known for bringing reproducible, pythonic solutions to sequencing-heavy projects.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Université de Strasbourg
Github Skills (93)
snakemake10
genomics10
sequence-alignment10
workflow-management10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
minhash9
python9
biopython9
sequencing9
ncbi8
treeview8
assembler8
simulation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jsgounot/PyBlast
Feb 2019 - Apr 2024
Local and global alignment using multiprocessing
Contributions:21 pushes, 5 comments, 1 issue in 5 years 3 months
jsgounot/BioScripts
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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