Clément Goubert
Clément is an evolutionary biologist who became bioinformatician through his (strange) passion for transposable elements. He completed is PhD at the university of Lyon (France) studying TEs in mosquitoes, before crossing the Atlantic to study transposons’ biology in the lab of Cédric Feschotte (University of Utah, then Cornell University) and later worked with Guillaume Bourque (McGill University, Canada) on developping bioinformatic methods to analyze TEs.
In the Wheeler lab, Clément works on the development of the TE hub, an international consortium dedicated to facilitate access and training to bioinformatic analyzes of transposable elements. His work also involve diving into the biology associated with computational predictions of our software, in particular mapping of exons and evolution of splicing.
Out of the lab, you can find Clément at Home Depot or in a record store. He also likes (trying) to build DIY synthesizers or go camping, but particularly excels in relaxing with is zoo of pets. There is also a guitar that he doesn’t seem to have touched in a while.
Clément and Pistache, a great specimen of random X-inactivation
Software
You can find Clement’s tools on his GitHub
Selected Publications
- 2023 | Groza, Cristian, Xun Chen, Travis J. Wheeler, Guillaume Bourque, and Clément Goubert. “GraffiTE: A Unified Framework to Analyze Transposable Element Insertion Polymorphisms Using Genome-Graphs.” bioRxiv.
- 2023 | Goubert, Clément. “Assembly-Free Detection and Quantification of Transposable Elements with dnaPipeTE.” Methods in Molecular Biology 2607: 25–43.
- 2022 | Goubert, Clement, Rory J. Craig, Agustin F. Bilat, Valentina Peona, Aaron A. Vogan, and Anna V. Protasio. “A Beginner’s Guide to Manual Curation of Transposable Elements.” Mobile DNA 13 (1): 15.
- 2020 | Flynn, Jullien M., Robert Hubley, Clément Goubert, Jeb Rosen, Andrew G. Clark, Cédric Feschotte, and Arian F. Smit. “RepeatModeler2 for Automated Genomic Discovery of Transposable Element Families.” PNAS 117 (17): 9451–57.
- 2020 | Goubert, Clément, Nicolas Arce Zevallos, and Cédric Feschotte. “Contribution of Unfixed Transposable Element Insertions to Human Regulatory Variation.” Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 375 (1795): 20190331.
Please let me know if you need access to these papers, I’ll be happy to share the manuscripts