Jean-Marc Aury

Jean-Marc Aury, is head of a bioinformatic group (Bioinformatics Laboratory for Genomics and Biodiversity, LBGB) at Genoscope. The LBGB is in charge of the management and analysis of the sequencing data produced at Genoscope, with a broad interest in methodological developments and has extensive experience in de novo assembly, gene prediction and comparative genomics of complex genomes and samples. Jean-Marc Aury is focused on eukaryotic genome analysis and has been a key player in several genome projects, like paramecium, grape, banana, cocoa and oak. He is an expert in bioinformatics and has generated and published several eukaryotic reference genomes as well as several bioinformatics tools dedicated to the analysis of genomic data.