User:Eric Rivals

Researcher active in string algorithms and computational biology. More details on my webpage https://www.lirmm.fr/~rivals/ ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3791-3973)

Biosketch: After a PhD in computer science (Univ. Lille), Eric Rivals worked 3 years at the German Cancer Res. Center in Heidelberg in Martin Vingron bioinformatic lab. Currently, research director in the Computer Science Dpt of the LIRMM, a joint CNRS - Univ. Montpellier unit, he focuses on algorithms for bioinformatics and their applications in genomics, transcriptomics, and cancer research. Besides algorithm design, he also developed software for bioinformatic analyses of large deep sequencing data. For instance, LoRDEC, one of the first efficient long read error correction program, is widely used in genome and transcriptome sequencing projects around the world (Salmela & Rivals, 2014). He recently co-published and co-patented a diagnostic method for a brain cancer based on the detection of epitranscriptomic modifications on RNA (Relier et al. 2022). ER served as Head of the Computer Science Dpt of the LIRMM (2007-2010), Head of the national network for molecular bioinformatics of the CNRS from (2010-2015), and Head of the Computational Biology Institute in Montpellier (2015-2019). Since 2016, he is also the scientific leader of the ATGC bioinformatic service platform, which attracts more than 10,000 unique users every year.

After a PhD in computer science (Univ. Lille), Eric Rivals worked 3 years at the German Cancer Res. Center in Heidelberg in Martin Vingron bioinformatic lab. Currently, research director in the Computer Science Dpt of the LIRMM, a joint CNRS - Univ. Montpellier unit, he focuses on algorithms for bioinformatics and their applications in genomics, transcriptomics, and cancer research. Besides algorithm design, he also developed software for bioinformatic analyses of large deep sequencing data. For instance, LoRDEC, one of the first efficient long read error correction program, is widely used in genome and transcriptome sequencing projects around the world (Salmela & Rivals, 2014). He recently co-published and co-patented a diagnostic method for a brain cancer based on the detection of epitranscriptomic modifications on RNA (Relier et al. 2022). ER served as Head of the Computer Science Dpt of the LIRMM (2007-2010), Head of the national network for molecular bioinformatics of the CNRS from (2010-2015), and Head of the Computational Biology Institute in Montpellier (2015-2019). Since 2016, he is also the scientific leader of the ATGC bioinformatic service platform, which attracts more than 10,000 unique users every year.