Gildas LE CORGUILLE

Gildas Le Corguillé (he/his) has held a permanent position as a bioanalyst/bioinformatics engineer at Sorbonne University since 2009, based at the Station Biologique de Roscoff (FR2424).

Within the ABiMS bioinformatics platform, he has contributed to various bioinformatics projects in collaboration with research teams at the Station and elsewhere, including those relating to annotation, phylogeny, transcriptomics (microarrays and RNA-Seq) and population genetics (RAD-Seq).

In 2020, he was nominated as the platform’s technical coordinator.

He began exploring the Galaxy framework in 2013. Initially, this was within the Workflow4Metabolomics (W4M) project, which aimed to integrate tools for metabolomics purposes within Galaxy. He is indeed involved in different animation initiatives, including being co-leader of the ELIXIR Galaxy Community (2017 to 2020) and part of the board for the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2017, GCC2026).
He founded the national instance UseGalaxy.Fr in 2019 and is its co-leader. This server has over 1,300 active users and processes 1 million jobs per year.

Since 2018, he has been working 30% of his time for the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB), the French ELIXIR node. His main task is to co-lead the National Network for Computing Resources (NNCR), which brings together 14 French HPC infrastructures for life sciences. The NNCR aims to provide scientists and engineers with computing resources environned by software and data, as well as to support and host French developments.

Alongside managing the ABiMS HPC server in Roscoff (3,700 cores, 27 TB of RAM, and 2 PB of storage), he co-leads the IFB Core Cluster, the national HPC infrastructure (8,440 cores, 84 TB of RAM, and 2 PB of storage).

In 2020, he became a member of the IFB Steering Committee.
From mid-2022 to mid-2023, he was interim director of UAR3601 IFB-Core.