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
Computational Genomics
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Required
Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
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