About

After a PhD in Computer Science, I went back to medical school to get a M.D. Now, I specialize in molecular genetics. I also contribute frequently to open-source projects, especially for Nix packages in bioinformatics.

Research

Publications:

• A. Praga, T.Z. Hirsch, D. Vidaud et al. (2025). Hepatoblastoma in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1: A case report, Cancer Genetics
• Labalette, V., Praga, A., Girard, F., Meireles, M., Hallez, Y., & Morris, J. F. (2021). Shear-induced glass-to-crystal transition in anisotropic clay-like suspensions. Soft Matter, 17(11), 3174-3190.
• Praga, A., Cariolle, D., & Giraud, L. (2015). Pangolin v1. 0, a conservative 2-D advection model towards large-scale parallel calculation. Geoscientific Model Development, 8(2), 205-220.)

Talks:

• Assises de Génétique (2026): BARACUDA : Un outil de priorisation et visualisation des aneuploïdies et des disomies uniparentales en mosaïque dans les maladies rares
• ACLF (2025) : BARACUDA : Un outil de priorisation et visualisation des CNV en mosaïques et des disomies uniparentales dans les maladies rares
• FOSDEM (2024) : Nix for genetics : powering a bioinformatics pipeline (lighthing talk) - slides, official website
• JCADD (2024) : Un pipeline reproductible pour la réanalyse de données d'exome en génétique - slides, talk, source code (Software Heritage)

Others:

• PhD manuscript: A large-scale atmospheric chemistry-transport model for massively parallel architectures
• Medical thesis: Un pipeline bioinformatique de ré-interprétation d'analyses constitutionnelles d'exome

Open-Source

With my fellow co-organizers, we added Bioinformatics at FOSDEM:

• 2024: my talk about Nix (see above)
• 2025 : Bird of a Feather (1 hour)
• 2025 : full dev room (half a day). Videos, slides and schedules