Alexandre Dionne-Laporte
Bioinformatic Software Engineer
ASGPB, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2565 McCarthy Mall, Keller Hall 301
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 956-0923 (phone)
(808) 956-0925 (fax)
laporte at hawaii.edu
http://asgpb.mhpcc.hawaii.edu
 

Education

M.S.    2002    University of Montreal, Canada
Thesis: Bioinformatics and software parallelization

Work experience and specialities

• scientific tools development
• data management
• discovery automation (pipelines)
• clustering and software parallelization
• middleware and multiplatform software development
• system maintenance
• webmaster

Research Summary

As Bioinformatic Software Engineer at the Advanced Studies for Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, I customize pipelines to assemble and annotate genomes sequenced in the lab.  The results are after available for collaborators on a nice web interface on ASGPB's website.  I build various programs to help the productivity of the group, as a QC mechanism for sequences, GUI front ends and some tools regarding genomics and proteomics analysis.  I am also in charge of maintaining and updating all databases in use at ASGPB.  I am also responsible of the sequences coming from the sequencing lab, as to fetch the data, the quality control and the storage of the sequences.  I maintain and update the web site of ASGPB.  I manage the computing server in different ways: update the tools and databases, administers the user accounts and make sure their needs are fulfilled.

Publications

Ming, R., Hou, S., Feng, Y., Yu, Q., Dionne-Laporte, A., et al.  2008.  The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus).  Nature.  452(7190):991-996.