Current address:

United Nations
Valencia

Spain

Education:

PhD in Biotechnology (Bioinformatics)
Ghent University
2005 - 2009

MSc. in Bioinformatics
University of Geneva
2001 - 2003

Systems Engineer
Catholic Bolivian University
1994 - 2000

Experience:

Scientist Bayer CropScience 2008 - now

PhD student VIB - Flemish Institute for Biotechnology 2005 - 2009

Visiting fellow The University of Manchester 2007 - 2008

Skills:

Bio-ontology engineering

Biological knowledge representation

Activities:

http://www.semantic-systems-biology.org/

http://www.cellcycleontology.org/

http://bitbucket.org/easr/onto-toolkit

http://search.cpan.org/dist/ONTO-PERL/

Interests:

Bio-ontologies

Semantic Web in Life Sciences

Data integration

References:

The Cell Cycle Ontology: an application ontology for the representation and integrated analysis of the cell cycle process. Genome Biology 2009, 10:R58 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-5-r58

BioGateway: a semantic systems biology tool for the life sciences. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 10):S11doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S10-S11

Biological knowledge management: the emerging role of the Semantic Web technologies. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2009 10(4):392-407; doi:10.1093/bib/bbp024

Ontology Design Patterns for bio-ontologies: a case study on the Cell Cycle Ontology. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 5):S1doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S5-S1

ONTO-PERL: An API for supporting the development and analysis of bio-ontologies. Bioinformatics 2008 24(6):885-887; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn042

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