Roland Faure

I'm a PhD student in bioinformatics under the joint supervision of Dominique Lavenier in the Genscale team in Rennes, France and Jean-François Flot and the EBE team at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. I love writing fast algorithms processing huge amounts of data, e.g. DNA sequencing data. My area of research is genome assembly and the problem of haplotyping.

Software, publications & talks

Hairsplitter

Separating noisy long reads into an unknown number of haplotypes

Developped under the supervision of Dominique Lavenier and Jean-François Flot

The goal of Hairsplitter is to produce contiguous and uncollapsed (i.e. with all haplotypes still present) assembly. It takes a standard assembly and sequencing reads as input, detects what contigs have been collapsed and output the corresponding uncollapsed assembly. Written in C++. Available on GitHub.
Presented as a poster at Genome informatics 2022 and as a talk at SeqBIM 2022

Graphunzip

Untangling assembly graphs to finish assemblies

Developped under the supervision of Nadège Guiglielmoni and Jean-François Flot

GraphUnzip untangles assembly graphs with the help of long reads and/or Hi-C. It is designed to distinguish the different haplotypes present. Written in Python. Available on GitHub.
Presented the key idea for the first time at JOBIM 2021
The long read algorithm was presented for the first time at SeqBIM 2021 thanks to a grant from the SFBI.

QuickDeconvolution

Rapidly separating barcoded reads into groups

Developped under the supervision of Dominique Lavenier

QuickDeconvolution aims at answering the barcode deconvolution problem when dealing with barcoded reads. It strives at being scalable and parallelisable. Written in C++. Available on GitHub.
Published in Bioinformatics advances

Reviews

NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Co-reviewed a paper with Karel Brinda, october 2022

Teaching

Initiation to Java programming

20h of practical sessions with 1st year bachelor computer science students in Rennes 1, Fall 2021

Python object-oriented programming

34h of practical sessions with 1st year master bioinformatics students in Rennes 1, Winter 2022

Educational background

2020 - 2021

Master "Bioinformatics & modelisation"

Sorbonne universités

Paris, France

2017-2020

Engineering school

École polytechnique

Saclay, France

2015 - 2017

Math & Physics preparatory school

Lycée Aux Lazaristes

Lyon, France

Contact

GitHub
RolandFaure
Twitter
@rfaure2