Sylvain Mareschal
Senior Bioinformatician
France
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Mareschal is a senior bioinformatician with over a decade of experience building robust bioinformatics systems and pipelines across academic and hospital settings in France and Sweden. Trained to PhD level in bioinformatics, he combines deep experience in next-generation sequencing analysis (RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, WES) with practical systems work—modernizing infrastructure, CI, HPC and intranet platforms that manage sequencing data for an entire hospital. He has a track record of moving research projects toward operational impact, from pangenomic analyses in clinical trials to production-grade pipeline development at Hospices Civils de Lyon. Curious and hands-on, he has alternated between bench-facing support roles and fieldwork (including a PIT-tagging campaign in a king penguin colony), reflecting a willingness to tackle diverse problems. Colleagues know him as a rigorous system-builder who prioritizes reproducibility, quality management, and tangible societal outcomes from bioinformatics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (MSc), Bioinformatics, Highest ranking, Master's degree (MSc), Bioinformatics, Highest ranking at Université de RouenDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology (bioinformatics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology (bioinformatics) at EdNBISEBachelor's degree (BSc), Biology, Bachelor's degree (BSc), Biology at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
French, English, Italian, Swedish
Github Skills (77)
slurm10
seq10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
rna-seq10
reproducible-research10
bioinformatics10
nextflow9
pipeline9
dataflow9
pipeline-framework9
docker9
aws9
fusion9
python-bindings9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
maressyl/R.FSAtools
Jul 2016 - Aug 2023
R package implementing the prediction software for GCB/ABC classification by RT-MLPA (Mareschal et al, JMD 2015)
Contributions:6 releases, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 7 years 1 month
r-packagepredictiontidymodelsmachine-learningabc
maressyl/R.Rgb
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
R package to efficiently browse and handle genomic data.
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 64 pushes in 8 months
r-packagebioinformaticsbrowsegenomichandle
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