Experience •Education •Computer skills •Publications •Languages •Scientific societies •Associations •Organization and events •Interests
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Experience
From 2025
  • Bioinformatician and System developer in NGI at SciLifeLab
  • • Pipeline development within nf-core, a community effort to collect a curated set of analysis pipelines built using Nextflow.
  • • In the core team that administers the nf-core project
2022-2025
  • Bioinformatician in Scientific Development at Seqera Labs
  • • Pipeline development within nf-core, a community effort to collect a curated set of analysis pipelines built using Nextflow.
  • • In the core team that administers the nf-core project
2016-2022
2013-2014Research Associate at National University of Singapore, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore
2009-2013
  • PhD Candidate at Cancer Research Center of Marseille
  • • Development of ITI, a method to analyze gene expression data by superimposition of a large scale protein-protein interaction data (human interactome) over several gene expression datasets
Education
2009PhD in Bioinformatics and Genomics at Aix-Marseille Université
2007-2009Master's Degree in Bioinformatics and Genomics (former master BBSG), Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Marseille
2007Erasmus Semester in School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich
2003-2007Bachelor's Degree in Biology and Biochemistry, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Marseille
Computer Skills
ScriptingGroovy, Bash, Perl
PipelineNextflow, Make
WebAstro, Jekyll, Wordpress
CommunicationSlack, LaTeX, Beamer, Inkscape
Project ManagementGithub, Trello
ContainersDocker, Singularity
Web languagesHTML5, CSS3, SASS, JS
OtherLinux, clusters, Git, R
Languages
FrenchMother tongue
EnglishFluent
SwedishBasic
Scientific Societies
• Member of the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)
• Member of the French Society of Bioinformatics (Société Française de BioInformatique: SFBI)
• Member of BioInfoDiag (Le Réseau Français de Bioinformatique pour le Diagnostic: BioInfoDiag)
• Member of the French Community of PhDs (La Communauté Française des Docteurs: CFD)
Associations
From 2012Contributor to Bioinfo-fr.net (French-speaking blog on Bioinformatics)
2012-2014Vice-president of JeBiF - RSG-France (Association of French Young Bioinformaticians)
2010-2011President of Hippo'Thèse (Association of young researchers in Biology at Aix-Marseille University)
2010-2011Vice-president and webmaster of BIOTechno Network (French Network of Associations organizing forums about careers in Biotechnology)
2009-2010Webmaster of Hippo'Thèse (Association of young researchers in Biology at Aix-Marseille University)
Organization and Events
2015Journées nationales de la Communauté Française des Docteurs (Webmaster, member of the organizing committee, and logistical support)
2012Doctoriales en Provence (Member of the organizing committee and logistical support)
2011Marché de la Chimie @ Fête de la Science (Conception and animation of a stand for Cancéropôle-PACA)
20117th BIOTechno forum in Marseille (Head of the organizing committee)
2009-2012Annual meeting of doctoral school in Biology and Health Sciences from Aix-Marseille University (Member of the organizing committee, abstract selection, jury member, and logistical support)
2007-2011Logistical support in organizing the Plan de Cuques French Comics Festival
Publications
Thesis
  • Garcia, Maxime Ulysse, Biomarkers discovery in breast cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, 2013-12-20.
Articles
  • Langer, Björn E et al., Empowering bioinformatics communities with Nextflow and nf-core, Genome Biology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 228, 2025.
  • Fellows Yates, James A. et al., Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager, PeerJ, vol. 9, pp. e10947, 2021.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Sarek: A portable workflow for whole-genome sequencing analysis of germline and somatic variants [version 2; peer review: 2 approved], F1000Research, vol. 9, pp. 63, 2020.
  • Ewels, Philip et al., The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines, Nature Biotechnology, 2020.
  • Fellows Yates, James A. et al., Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager, bioRxiv, 2020.
  • Ewels, Philip et al., nf-core: Community curated bioinformatics pipelines, bioRxiv, 2019.
  • Liu, Tian et al., Glycosylation Controls Sodium-Calcium Exchanger 3 Sub-Cellular Localization During Cell Cycle, European Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 97, no. 3, pp. 190--203, 2018.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Sarek: A portable workflow for whole-genome sequencing analysis of germline and somatic variants, bioRxiv, 2018.
  • Bonacci, Thomas et al., Identification of new mechanisms of cellular response to chemotherapy by tracking changes in post-translational modifications by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like proteins, Journal of Proteome Research, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 2478--2494, 2014.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., CNV-Interactome-Transcriptome Integration to detect driver genes in cancerology, Microarray Image and Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, pp. 331--338, 2014.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Detection of driver protein complexes in breast cancer metastasis by large scale transcriptome-interactome integration, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1101, pp. 67--85, 2014.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Linking Interactome to Disease: A Network-Based Analysis of Metastatic Relapse in Breast Cancer, Bioinformatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, pp. 151--172, 2013.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Interactome-transcriptome integration for predicting distant metastasis in breast cancer, Bioinformatics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 672--678, 2012.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Linking Interactome to Disease: A Network-Based Analysis of Metastatic Relapse in Breast Cancer, Handbook of Research on Computational and Systems Biology: Interdisciplinary Applications, pp. 406--427, 2011.
Talks
  • Garcia, Maxime U., CbioNet - What is nf-core?, Online, 2022-04.
  • Garcia, Maxime U., nf-core/bytesize #34 - Bytesize 34: Updates on the new DSL2 syntax Talk, Online, 2022-02.nf-core/bytesize #34
  • Garcia, Maxime U., nf-core/bytesize #18 - Development Environments and Workflows, Online, 2021-06.nf-core/bytesize #18
  • Garcia, Maxime U., nf-core/bytesize #8 - Running pipelines offline, Online, 2021-04.nf-core/bytesize #8
  • Garcia, Maxime U., nf-core/bytesize #2 - How nf-core configs work, Online, 2021-02.nf-core/bytesize #2
  • Garcia, Maxime U., nf-core Hackathon - Featured nf-core pipelines: Sarek, Heidelberg, Germany, 2020-07.nf-core Hackathon July 2020
  • Garcia, Maxime U., nf-core a community effort for collaborative peer-reviewed pipelines, Montpellier, France, 2020-06.JOBIM 2020
  • Garcia, Maxime U., CI*Joe - Make your code great again, Stockholm, Sweden, 2020-05.Coffee n' Code Club
  • Garcia, Maxime U., Sarek, a workflow to detect germline and somatic mutations in WGS/WES, Bergen, Norway, 2019-10.4th Scandinavian Seminar on Translational Pathology
  • Garcia, Maxime U., Sarek, A portable workflow for WGS/WES analysis of germline and somatic mutations, FoUU-day for clinical pathology-cytology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018-10.
  • Garcia, Maxime U., Sarek, a portable workflow for WGS analysis of germline and somatic mutations, Marseille, France, 2018-07.JOBIM 2018
  • Garcia, Maxime U., Sarek and nf-core for Reproducibility, SPHN Workflow Interoperability Workshop, Basel, Switzerland, 2018-03.
  • Garcia, Maxime U., Biomarkers Discovery in Breast Cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, Vienna, Austria, 2011-04.MASAMB XXI
  • Garcia, Maxime U., Biomarkers Discovery in Breast Cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, Cancer Bioinformatics Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2010-09.
Posters
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Sarek, a workflow for WGS analysis of germline and somatic mutations, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018-08.Department Kick Off 2018
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Sarek, a workflow for WGS analysis of germline and somatic mutations, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2018-06.The Nordic Precision Medicine Initiative
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Sarek, a workflow for WGS analysis of germline and somatic mutations, Keystone Symposia - Precision Medicine in Cancer (E1), Stockholm, Sweden, 2018-05.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Sarek, a workflow for WGS analysis of germline and somatic mutations, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018-03.Frontiers in Cancer Research and Therapy 2018
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Cancer Analysis Workflow to process normal/tumor WGS data, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017-08.Department Kick Off 2017
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Cancer Analysis Workflow to process normal/tumor WGS data, European Human Genetics Conference 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017-05.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Cancer Analysis Workflow Of Tumor/Normal Pairs At The National Genomics Infrastructure, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017-02.Frontiers in Cancer Research and Therapy 2017
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Cancer Analysis Workflow Of Tumor/Normal Pairs At The National Genomics Infrastructure, Djuro, Sweden, 2016-09.The XVth KICancer Retreat 2016
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Visualizing the DNA/DNA interactome using ChromoLens, Frontiers in Cancer Science 2013, Singapore, Singapore, 2013-11.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Interactome-Transcriptome Integration Uncovers More Stable and Better Performing Biomarkers in Breast Cancer, Basel, Switzerland, 2012-09.ECCB 2012
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Interactome-Transcriptome Integration Uncovers More Stable and Better Performing Biomarkers in Breast Cancer, Rennes, France, 2012-07.JOBIM 2012
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Interactome-Transcriptome Integration Uncovers More Stable and Better Performing Biomarkers in Breast Cancer, Marseille, France, 2012-02.6eme Colloque du Canceropole PACA
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Biomarkers Discovery in Breast Cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, Paris, France, 2011-07.JOBIM 2011
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Biomarkers Discovery in Breast Cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, 19th meeting of doctoral school, Marseille, France, 2011-06.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Biomarkers Discovery in Breast Cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, BCP VII, Marseille, France, 2010-12.
  • Garcia, Maxime U. et al., Biomarkers Discovery in Breast Cancer by Interactome-Transcriptome Integration, Interactomics: at the crossroads of biology and bioinformatics, St Raphael, France, 2010-04.
Outreach
Interests
• Yoga, Cinema, Poker, Gardening, Ice-Skating