Research group in bioinformatics at the University of Vigo (Spain)

1. Grupo de Bioinformática &
Evolución Molecular
darwin.uvigo.es

2. Composition
• 5 PhD
• 3 postdocs
• 1 IPP
• 1 TU
• 7 biologists, 1 mathematician, 1 informatic
engineer, 1 chemist.
• Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru,
Romenia.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Bioinformatic needs
• HPC: parallelization, multi-core environments,
GPU.
• Development of web services.
• Classification and machine learning.
• Computational statistics: numerical
optimization,likelihod, Bayesian, MCMC.

7. Software development