The RSAT team

Project leaders
Jacques van Helden Jacques van Helden
Professor Aix-Marseille Université (France)
Project leader (1997-now) Development, evaluation and applications of algorithms for the analysis of regulatory sequences and biological networks.

Morgane Thomas-Chollier Morgane Thomas-Chollier
Associate professor at Ecole normale supérieure de Paris (France)
RSAT developper since 2007 NGS and ChIP-seq methods
Matrix-based pattern matching.
Matrix score distributions.
Detection of cis-regulatory modules.
Renovation of the web site.

Alejandra Medina-Rivera
Associate professor at International Laboratory for the Research on the Human Genome, UNAM (Mexico)
RSAT developper since 2008 RSAT developper since 2008 NGS and ChIP-seq methods
Evaluation of PSSM quality.
Evolution of bacterial regulation.
Identification of regulatory variants.

Bruno Contreras Moreira Bruno Contreras-Moreira
Zaragoza, Spain
Deployment of RSAT Plant server
Maintenance of plant genomes
Developer of FootprintDB
RSAT developer
Active developpers
Jaime Castro Jaime A Castro-Mondragon
Post-doc Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) (Norway)
RSAT developper since 2013 Clustering of motifs.
Methods to measure motif similarity and motif enrichment.
Mantainer of motif databases.

Nga Thi Thuy NGUYEN
Ingénieure d'étude at CNRS (IFB contract) (IBENS,Paris,France)
Since 2016

Walter Santana
Bachelor student at Genomic sciences (UNAM, Mexico)
Since 2016 Web site maintenance
Virtual machine
Implementation and maintenance of the Web services.
RSATicus

Walter Santana Garcia
Ingénieure d\'étude at IBENS (France)
Since 2016 Identification of regulatory variants
NGS and ChIP-seq methods

Matthieu Defrance Matthieu Defrance
Associate professor, Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
Since 2007 Algorithms for motif discovery.
Matrix-based pattern matching.
Detection of cis-regulatory modules.
Former Developpers
Former Developpers
C?line Hernandez Céline Hernandez
Bioinformatic engineer at Ecole normale supérieure de Paris (France)
Engineer (2014 - now) Development of new Web services clients in Python.
Virtual machine.

Olivier Sand Olivier Sand
Research Engineer at CNRS (Lille,France)
Postdoc (2004-2009) Implementation and maintenance of the Web services.

Sylvain Brohee Sylvain Brohée
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jules Bordet Institute (BCTL - Breast Cancer Translational Research Lab)(Belgium).
PhD student (2005-2008) Network analysis tools.
Evaluation of graph-based clustering algorithms.
Protein interaction and regulatory networks.

Didier Croes Didier Croes
Senior Bioinformatician at UZ Brussel (Belgium)
PhD student (2001-2006), postdoc (2010-2011). Analysis of metabolic networks.

Karoline Faust Karoline Faust
Principal investigator, KU Leuven, (Belgium)
PhD student (2005-2010) Analysis of metabolic networks.

Rekin's Janky Rekin's Janky
Bioinformatician (Scientist) at the VIB Nucleomics Core (Belgium)
PhD student (2004-2007)
Discovery of phylogenetic footprints in bacterial promoters.

Gipsi Lima Mendez Gipsi Lima Mendez
Postdoctoral Fellow at Raes Lab, VIB and KU Leuven. (Belgium)

PhD student (2005-2008) and Postdoc (2008-2009)
Algorithms for fuzzy clustering on graphs.

Jean Valery Turatsinze Jean-Valéry Turatsinze
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Diabetes Research, Faculty of Medecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
PhD student (2006-2009) Matrix-based pattern mathing.
Detection of cis-regulatory modules.

Eric Vervisch Eric Vervisch
Entrepreneur (Singapore)
Research fellow (2007-2008) Design of Taverna workflows for the analysis of cis-regulatory elements and molecular networks.