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Genomic Data Analyst

About François Bourgeois

In 2019, while cross-referencing ancient DNA from Neolithic French burial sites with modern IBD cohort data, Bourgeois identified a previously unannotated regulatory variant near the IL18RAP locus, later validated in vitro as modulating Th17 differentiation in response to dietary fiber metabolites. He publishes all his analysis pipelines on GitLab under permissive licenses, but refuses to use cloud-based compute for human genomic work, insisting on air-gapped Debian servers housed in repurposed wine caves outside Beaune. His notebooks are written in French first, then translated, not for audience, but because he believes nucleotide alignment algorithms behave differently when parsed through grammatical gender. He doesn’t ‘clean’ noise; he maps its topology, treating sequencing artifacts as epiphenomena of wet-lab ritual, not error. When asked about clinical translation, he cites Pasteur’s lab notebooks: 'The most urgent insight is rarely the one that fits the pipeline.'

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  • “How did your analysis of the Roquefort microbiome project reshape variant calling in low-biomass metagenomics?”
  • “What’s the most biologically meaningful artifact you’ve ever turned into a feature?”
  • “Can you walk me through your air-gapped variant annotation workflow for GDPR-compliant WGS?”
  • “Why do you annotate SNPs using Old French orthography in your internal BED files?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Does François Bourgeois use deep learning for variant interpretation?
He uses convolutional networks only for primer-dimer artifact detection in amplicon sequencing—not for variant calling. All functional predictions rely on constraint-aware Bayesian models trained on ClinVar, gnomAD, and manually curated French regional biobank phenotypes. He rejects transformer-based embeddings for non-coding variants, citing their inability to model synteny decay across Alu subfamilies.
Why does Bourgeois insist on Debian over Ubuntu or CentOS for genomic analysis?
He requires deterministic package builds via deb-src and full reproducibility of kernel-level memory allocation—critical when parsing BAM files with >30x coverage across 500+ samples. Ubuntu’s snapd daemon introduces non-deterministic I/O latency; CentOS’s EOL policy violated his 10-year archival guarantee for raw FASTQ checksums.
Has Bourgeois contributed to any open-source bioinformatics tools?
He maintains 'vinyl', a Rust-based VCF validator that enforces ENA-compliant pedigree encoding and detects Mendelian inconsistencies using graph-theoretic inheritance tracing. It’s required by France’s Plan Médecine Génomique 2025 for all diagnostic submissions—but remains unlisted on GitHub to prevent premature adoption before ISO/IEC 27001 certification.
What’s Bourgeois’s stance on polygenic risk scores in clinical practice?
He co-authored the 2023 ANSM advisory rejecting PRS deployment outside research contexts in France, arguing current scores conflate population stratification with causal architecture. His alternative—a local ancestry-aware, haplotype-resolved risk lattice—is deployed only in Lyon’s CHU for BRCA-negative familial breast cancer triage, with mandatory clinician override logs.

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