Arnaud Kerhornou
Software engineer
Driving License
Cambridge United Kingdom
Employed
Open to opportunities
Software Engineering, Networks, Compilation, Natural Language Processing.
Dissertation: Agent Development in Java - part of the “Bonom” Research Project. The purpose of the Bonom project is to build a distributed Agent Society to improve the search for information on Internet.
Dissertation: Agent Development in Java - part of the “Bonom” Research Project. The purpose of the Bonom project is to build a distributed Agent Society to improve the search for information on Internet.
Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming using Java, Database, Operating Systems.
Advanced Bachelor Of Science in Cellular Biology and Physiology
Université de Nantes
September 1996
to May 1997
Cellular Biology; Genetic Engineering; Immunology; Animal Physiology.
Software Engineer
European Bioinformatics Institute
Since September 2006
Part-time
Cambridge
United Kingdom
- From 2011 to present: Working in the Ensembl Plants team. Responsible for loading the bread wheat genome and its annotation into Ensembl Genomes. Coordinate the polyploid genome support into Ensembl.
- From 2009 to 2011: Working in Ensembl Genomes group, coordinating Ensembl Fungi division.
- From 2006 to 2009: Developer for the Integr8 & Genome Reviews projects.
- Project website: http://www.ensemblgenomes.org
Bioinformatician
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
April 2005
to August 2006
Part-time
Barcelona
Spain
- Responsible for genome analysis Bioinformatics support, developing primarily promoter analysis and gene predictions workflows, and exposing them as BioMoby Web services.
- The project was funded by INB, http://www.inab.org.
Senior scientific programmer
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
October 2000
to February 2005
Full-time
Cambridge
United Kingdom
- Bioinformatics support for various genome annotation projects, within the Pathogen Sequencing Unit.
- Responsible for generating the first pass gene set annotations for the Dictyostelium discoideum genome.
- Also involved in the development of the GeneDB database, http://www.genedb.org
Summer placement in Bioinformatics
MRC HGMP-RC
June 2000
to September 2000
Internship
Hinxton, Cambridge
United Kingdom
- Development of a CORBA server in Java for the HuGen Database (Human Genome Clustering Project).
Summer placement in Computer Science
Les Laboratoires SERVIER
June 1999
to August 1999
Internship
Paris
France
- Software development for editorial task management for the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology.
- Good knowledge of common bioinformatics software, Bioperl, Ensembl API, Biomart
- Computational genome analysis (in particular gene predictions as well as promoter regions analysis)
- ESTs & RNA-Seq projects (clustering, alignments and annotations)
- Good knowledge in the design of genome databases, in particular of the GUS and Chado databases.
- Fluent in Perl and Java, basic knowledge of C and C++
- Basic knowledge of statistical analysis with R.
- Database programming and SQL (Oracle, MySQL)
- SOAP-based web services development, use of BioMoby and Taverna software
- OA&D, UML
- French (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- Spanish (Proficient speaking and writing)
- Hungarian (beginner)
