Marc-andré Legault
Chercheur at Faculté de pharmacie - UdeM
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMarc-andré Legault is a researcher and assistant professor at Université de Montréal specializing in leveraging human genetics, bioinformatics, and machine learning to understand drug effects. With over a decade of experience spanning a PhD in bioinformatics, a postdoc at Mila, and roles at leading Montreal research centers, he bridges computational method development and translational pharmacogenomics. He leads a lab at the Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine and mentors students across levels, accepting a limited number of trainees with aligned interests. His work emphasizes building practical analysis pipelines—ranging from Django-based web integration of bioinformatics tools to genome-wide metrics—and is documented in a public Google Scholar profile. Based in Montreal, he combines academic rigor with hands-on software solutions that make complex genetic analyses more accessible to clinicians and researchers.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Université de Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (24)
genetics9
imputation9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
parse8
genetic8
matplotlib7
python7
explore6
pandas6
data-science6
data-visualization5
evaluation4
collections4
rcppeigen4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
legaultmarc/normality
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
legaultmarc/forestplot
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
js-scriptvisualization
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