Alfonso Valencia

Alfonso Valencia
Alfonso Valencia speaking at ISMB/ECCB 2013
Alfonso Valencia speaking at ISMB/ECCB 2013.
Alma mater
Known forBioCreative[5][6][7][8]
Awards
Scientific career
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Academic advisorsChris Sander[2][3][4]

Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish biologist, ICREA Professor, current director of the Life Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.[9], of Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII), and coordinator of the data pillar of the Spanish Personalised Medicine initiative, IMPaCT. From 2015-2018, he was President of the International Society for Computational Biology.[10]

His research interest is the development of Computational Biology methods and their application to biomedical problems. Some of the computational methods he developed are considered pioneering work in areas such as biological text mining, protein coevolution, disease networks and more recently modelling cellular systems (digital twins). He participates in some of the key cancer related international consortia. In terms of community services, he is one of the initial promoters of the ELIXIR infrastructure, founder of the Spanish and International Bioinformatics networks and former president of ISCB, the international professional association of Bioinformaticians. He is Executive Editor of the main journal in the field (Bioinformatics OUP).

His research is focused on the study of biomedical systems with computational biology and bioinformatics approaches.[1]

  1. ^ a b Alfonso Valencia publications indexed by Google Scholar
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  5. ^ Hirschman, L.; Yeh, A.; Blaschke, C.; Valencia, A. (2005). "Overview of BioCreAtIvE: Critical assessment of information extraction for biology". BMC Bioinformatics. 6 (Suppl 1): S1. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-S1-S1. PMC 1869002. PMID 15960821.
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  9. ^ "El fichaje de Alfonso Valencia refuerza Barcelona como capital bioinformática". La Vanguardia. 2017-03-07.
  10. ^ "Past Officers and Directors". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 12 April 2018.