Josep Francesc Abril

Role

Lecturer

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, specialising in fundamentals (UB)
PhD in Health and Life Sciences (UPF)

Biography

Josep Abril’s research focuses on the computational sequence analysis of omics projects and their annotation, from assembly through to the functional description of genes and genomes, their integration in interaction networks, modelling eukaryotic signals and genic structures, visualising genomic features (such as in his 2001 Science paper on the Human Genome Map) and describing viral communities from metagenomic samples, among others. His favourite organisms are planarians, flies and humans, though not necessarily in that order. He has been involved in a number of major gene-finding accuracy assessments, including fly GASP and human EGASP/RGASP.

Subjects they teach

Subject
Programme
Typology

Computational Genomics

Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics

Required

Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics

Description

In computational genomics, computational analysis is used to understand the biology of the genome sequences under study (DNA, RNA, microarray data, etc.). With an eminently genomic focus, the idea is to apply computational methods to understand the structure and function of sequences, with particular emphasis of the process of annotating functional elements at genomic level.

Code:
53129

Créditos:
5 ECTS

Language:
English

Type of subject: Required