Nicolas Descostes
Reseach Assistant Professor at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Descostes is a research-focused bioinformatics leader with ~10 years' experience analyzing sequencing data tied to gene expression and guiding reproducible pipelines across academic labs. He has supported more than 20 projects and delivered over 350 scientific and 230 technical consultations, co-chairing EMBL’s Workflow Management Systems workstream while leading service, teaching, and data management efforts. At EMBL he scaled bioinformatics service provision and training—running ~15 workshops and supervising multiple MSc/PhD students—and now continues as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Miami. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines hands-on tool and pipeline development with scientific mentorship and an interest in applying big-data analytics to healthcare and wearable-device exposome studies.
10 years of coding experience
Honours in Biology with IT, Bioinformatics, Honours in Biology with IT, Bioinformatics at University of the West of ScotlandMaster 2 in Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, Master 2 in Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II)MRes in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, MRes in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at University of Glasgow (one semester)
French, English, Italian
Github Skills (33)
snakemake10
package-management10
conda10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
bioconda9
workflow-management9
science8
pipeline8
bioconductor8
rhdf57
workflow-engine7
python7
docker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
descostesn/chromglycomethods
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Describe the computational methods of the article on glycosylation and transcription on chromatin in mammalian cells
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 68 pushes in 7 months
descostesn/ChIPSeqProcessing
Aug 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:116 pushes, 1 branch, 78 tags in 2 years 2 months
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