A new research engineer has been recently recruited to strengthen the research team in charge of the Bioinformatics project .

Jean-François Dufayard, PhD in bioinformatics, will be in charge of the development of optimized methods for prediction of paralogue and orthologue genes using phylogenetic approaches.
Contact: jean-francois.dufayard[at]cirad.fr

He will join:

Gautier Sarah, bioinformatics engineer, who will be in charge of the development of an integrated module for high-throughput sequence diversity analysis. This module will provide applications for assembling NGS sequencing outputs, SNP determination, haplotypes definition, and detection of intra-species selection. Contact: gautier.sarah[at]cirad.fr

Guilhem Sempere, informatics engineer, who will be in charge of the management, collection, storage, and formatting of data produced by ARCAD. He will adapt components of existing databases (Chado, TropGene, GreenPhyl) and develop Web interfaces according to users' needs. Contact: guilhem.sempere[at]cirad.fr