Grupo de Bioinformática & Evolución Molecular

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Composition

•  5 PhD •  3 postdocs •  1 IPP •  1 TU

•  7 biologists, 1 mathematician, 1 informatic engineer, 1 chemist.

•  Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Romenia.

Members (I)

• Graciela Sotelo (PhD; biologist): crustacean phylogeography.

• Miguel Arenas (PhD; chemist): recombination and HIV evolution.

• Mateus Patricio (PhD; computer science): genetic code prediction.

•  Sara Rocha (PhD; biologist): reptile biogeography.

• Miguel Fonseca (PhD; biologist): mtDNA evolution.

Members (II)

•  Alpar Vajk-Kramer (postdoc; mathematician): numerical optimization.

•  Leo Arbiza (postdoc; biologist): computational genomics.

•  Leo Martins (postdoc; biologist): Bayesian phylogenomics.

•  Carlos Canchaya (IPP; biologist): comparative genomics.

• David Posada (TU; biologist): models of molecular evolution, detection of recombination

Research lines in bioinformatics

• Computational prediction of the genetic code.

• Molecular evolution, genome structure and gene function.

• Phylogenomics and models of genome evolution.

• Bacterial and phage comparative genomics • Software development.

Bioinformatic needs

• HPC: parallelization, multi-core environments, GPU.

• Development of web services. • Classification and machine learning. • Computational statistics: numerical

optimization,likelihod, Bayesian, MCMC.

Software development