Lille bioinformatics engineers network

The bioinformatics engineers network aims to bring together the community of bioinformatics engineers from all laboratories and teams in Lille. Its main objective is to share knowledge on bioinformatics methods, tools and resources during convivial moments.

The network organises :

  • "cafés bioinfo", to share information and feedback over a drink or a meal. We also discuss during these informal moments topics to address or to develop through seminars/workshops/tutorials.
  • technical seminars and tutorials on technical topic animated by guest experts. They are open to the bioinformaticians, biostatisticians and biologists communities, as well as to engineers, researchers, thesis and master's students.
  • "coins techno",  animated by members of the network on a specific technical and technological topic to exchange and share personal experience.

Network members

More than 80 participants are registered on the mailing list. Most are "expert users" of bioinformatics tools and develop scripts to use and integrate existing tools. Several application fields are represented: genetic epidemiology analysis, transcriptome analysis, proteomics, genomics, NGS data analysis.

Next events

  • To be announced

Contact and mailing list

Contacts : Olivier Sand and Pierre Pericard

To get the latest news about this network subscribe to the bilille-reseau-inge list by sending an e-mail to O. Sand and P. Pericard.

National network

In 2023, a national network of bioinformatics engineers (MERIT) was created, supported by the CNRS (https://merit.cnrs.fr/presentation/). This network aims to support the activities of local networks such as the one in Lille.

MERIT : Réseau MetiER en bIoinformaTique

Past events

  • 23 march 2023 at Bistrot de St So

  • 3 october 2019 at Layalina restaurant

  • 26 april 2019 at Bistrot de St So

  • 9 november 2018 at Bistrot de St So

  • 13 april 2018 at Bistrot de St So

  • 11 september 2017 at Bistrot de la gare Saint Sauveur

  • 5 may 2016 at Institut de Biologie de Lille (30 participants)

  • 15 september 2015 at Bistrot de la gare Saint Sauveur (21 participants)

08 & 09-12-2022 - nf-core [Workshop]
11-03-2019 - WAVES [Training]

  • Trainers: Vincent Lefort and Anne-Muriel Chifolleau (Montpellier)

  • Organized by Olivier Sand

  • Location: bâtiment M3, CRIStAL, Cité Scientifique

07-11-2018 et 08-11-2018 - Nextflow [Training]

  • Trainers: Paolo Di Tommaso and Evan Floden, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelone

  • Co-organized with the Génomique Fonctionnelle et Structurale platform of Université de Lille with Christophe Demay

  • Location: bâtiment M3, CRIStAL, Cité Scientifique

20-03-2018 – Utilisation du framework Nextflow pour le soin et la recherche en bioinformatique [Seminar]
14-11-2016 – Docker, BioShadock et Go-Docker [Seminar]
02-06-2016 – Modéliser autrement avec OpenMole [Seminar + Tutorial]

  • Event announcement (pdf, 156.5 Kb)

  • Mathieu Leclaire and Romain Reuillon – ISC-PIF Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Paris, Géographie-cités CNRS UMR 8504

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina Evo-Eco-Paléo UMR8198

05-06-2015 – Séquençage de type RAD-seq, présentation et traitement analytique [Seminar + Tutorial]
07-11-2013 – Workshop CLC dédié à l'analyse des données NGS [Seminar + Tutorial]
15-10-2013 – Assemblage de-novo de transcriptome - Trinity [Seminar + Tutorial]

  • Event announcement (pdf, 264.3 Kb)

  • Erwan Corre - Plate-forme AbiMS, Station Biologique de Roscoff

  • Gildas Le Corguillé - Université Pierre & Marie Curie

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina, GEPV

25-06-2013 – Analyse de données issues de ChIP-seq: comment passer des "reads" aux motifs de fixation pour des facteurs de transcription

  • Event announcement (pdf, 147.3 Kb)

  • Morgane Thomas-Chollier - Ecole Normale Supérieure, IBENS

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Olivier Sand UMR8199

17-06-2013 – Cytoscape 3.0: The evolution of an open-source network visualization tool and its new architecture
12-12-2012 – IDB-cloud : Providing Bioinformatics Services on Cloud [Seminar + Tutorial]

  • Event announcement (pdf, 78.5 Kb)

  • Christophe Blanchet - Infrastructure Distribuée pour la Biologie – CNRS-IBCP FR3302 – Lyon

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille + CRI

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina, GEPV

22-05-2013 – SVDetect: a tool to identify genomic structural variations from paired-end and mate-pair sequencing data

  • Event announcement (pdf, 66.4 Kb)

  • Bruno Zeitouni - Institut Curie - Inserm U900 – Mines ParisTech

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille + CRI

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina, GEPV

12-12-2012 – Alignement de lectures, la spécificité d'abord

  • Event announcement (pdf, 177.5 Kb)

  • Dr Mikael Salson – LIFL Equipe Bonsai – Université Lille1

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina, GEPV

28-11-2012 – Comment diversifier les données de séquençage à haut débit pour optimiser la bioinformatique ? Les stratégies hybrides PacBio & Roche 454/Illumina HiSEq

  • Event announcement (pdf, 171.5 Kb)

  • Dr Christophe Meynier and Sabrina Benoussaidh - GATC Biotech France & Belgique

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina, GEPV

26-06-2012 – Galaxy: un environnement d'analyses bioinformatiques
14-05-2012 – GMOD

  • Le projet GMOD : une collection d'outils génériques pour le stockage et la visualisation de données biologiques

  • Genome annotation : URGI pipelines and manual annotation system

  • Event announcement (pdf, 268.5 Kb)

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Sophie Gallina, GEPV

10-06-2011 – Puces d'expression

  • Présentation des puces à ADN, de l'intérêt de la normalisation des données, des biais obtenus

    • David Hot - Institut Pasteur de Lille

  • Présentation de Bioconductor et de son utilisation sur les puces à ADN - retours d'utilisation

    • Guillemette MAROT - INRIA

  • Event announcement (pdf, 285.1 Kb)

  • Location : INRIA Lille

  • Organized by Louise Ott

09-06-2011 - Assemblage, R

  • Assemblage de novo

    • Rayan Chikhi - IRISA Renne

  • Sustainable R package development using documentation generation

  • Collaborative statistical software development using R-Forge

    • Toby Hocking - INRIA Paris

  • Event announcement (pdf, 98.1 Kb)

  • Location : Institut Pasteur Lille

  • Organized by Cécile Lecœur, CNRS UMR 8199

13-05-2011 - An overview of the Cytoscape software platform for network biology
  • Event announcement (pdf, 1 Mb) 

  • Pr Benno Schwikowski - Systems Biology Lab, Institut Pasteur, Paris

  • Location : Institut de Biologie de Lille

  • Organized by Frédéric Leprêtre, IRCL Lille

  • 12 february 2021 (visio Zoom): the use of containers (Docker, Singularity)

  • 18 november 2019: use of Conda