Sébastien Renaut
Bioinformatician
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSébastien Renaut is a bioinformatician and evolutionary geneticist with over 12 years of experience bridging academic research and industry R&D, currently working at the Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine. He has led multidisciplinary genomics projects across evolution, oncology, ecology and population genetics, working with diverse omics datasets from single-cell to WGS and metagenomics. A published researcher with 42+ papers and 4,000+ citations, he also spent nearly a decade as an associate editor for a leading ecology and evolution journal, shaping peer review standards. Technically fluent in R, Python, Unix and command-line bioinformatics, he has transitioned successful workflows from research into product-focused bioinformatics solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who reliably delivers complex projects on time while mentoring teams and running training workshops in genomics and biodiversity science.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Evolutionary genetics, PhD Evolutionary genetics at Université LavalBachelor Environmental Biology, Bachelor Environmental Biology at McGill University - Macdonald CampusM. Sc Evolutionary biology, M. Sc Evolutionary biology at McGill University
French
Stackoverflow
71reputation
2kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (46)
bioconductor10
r9
peak-detection9
mass-spectrometry9
stable8
sequencing8
ms-data8
data-wrangling8
r-package7
feature-detection7
data-visualisation7
knitr7
rmarkdown6
phyloseq6
phylogeny6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seb951/Acadian_seaplants
Aug 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
seb951/rmarkdown_workshop
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
atelier R markdown workshop (Sept 18th 2018, 13h30-4pm, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale)
Contributions:85 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 6 months
rmarkdown
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