Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

Bioinformatics computing center of Roscoff

Participants : Sébastien Brillet, Erwan Drezen, Patrick Durand, Dominique Lavenier, Ivaylo Petrov.

Through the collaborative project KORIBLAST2 funded by Région Bretagne (June 2014-December 2015) and within the KoriScale lab, we worked: (1) to improve the KLAST software with new alignment methods developed by GenScale; (2) to extend the capabilities of KLAST toward metagenomic processing; (3) to develop a cloud version targeting huge sequence comparison processing.

Etablissement Français du sang (EFS)

Participant : Dominique Lavenier.

An active collaboration with EFS started in 2015 to speed up individual HLA genotyping. A first prototype has been designed (see section New Results) and should be intensively tested in 2016 on many patient data.

Rennes Hospital, Hematology service, Genetic service

Participants : Patrick Durand, Dominique Lavenier, Claire Lemaitre, Pierre Peterlongo, Guillaume Rizk.

The collaboration with the Hematology service and with the Genetic service of the Rennes hospital aims to set up advanced bioinformatics pipelines for cancer diagnosis.

Partnership with INRA in Rennes

Participants : Cervin Guyomar, Dominique Lavenier, Fabrice Legeai, Claire Lemaitre, Sébastien Letort, Pierre Peterlongo, François Moreews.

The GenScale team has a strong and long term collaboration with biologists of INRA in Rennes: IGEPP and PEGASE units. This partnership concerns both service and research activities and is acted by the hosting two INRA engineers (F. Legeai, F. Moreews) and one PhD student (C. Guyomar).