About us
The Bioinformatics and Systems Biology group (GiBBS) is physically located at National University of Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia (South America). Our research is focused on the reconstruction and analysis of biological networks into three main areas: Computational Modeling, Machine Learning in Biological Systems and Statistical Genomics.
Research areas
Computational Modeling
Coordinated by professor Andrés Pinzón Ph.D. Institute for Genetics, National University of Colombia. Biologist specialized in the application and development of Systems biology and Bioinformatics methos for the study of biological networks. His work focuses in the following topics:
- Systems medicine.
- Genome Scale Metabolic Networks reconstruction and analysis.
Email: ampinzonv@unal.edu.co
Statistical Genomics
Coordinated by professor Liliana López Kleine Ph.D. Department of Statistcs, National University of Colombia. Biologist specialized in the development and application of statistical methods to the analysis of genomic data. Most of her research has been dedicated to the analysis of gene expression data (microarray and RNAseq data). Her work focuses in the following topics:
- Detection of differentially expressed genes
- Functional prediction using machine learning methods
- Construction of gene co-expression and protein interaction networks
Email: llopezkleine@unal.edu.co
Machine Learning in Biological Systems
Coordinated by professor Juan David García Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine, National University of Colombia. Email: judgarciaar@unal.edu.co
Technical assistance
Deep level configuration and cluster maintanance is performed by Javier Duque jaduquec@unal.edu.co.
General cluster servers administrative tasks are performed by Andrés Pinzón ampinzonv@unal.edu.co.
Researchers
The following students and researchers are actively associated to our group.
PhD students
- Johana Forero.
- Diana Tusso.
- Andrea Otálora.
- Michelle Guevara.
- Ximena Torres.
- Andrés rincón.
Master students
- Laura Alejandra Gómez.
- Pedro Wagner.
- Oscar Beltran.
- Oscar Blandón.
- Nicolas Mendoza.
- Adrian Zuur.
- Yesica Salas.
- Francisco Palomino.
- Juan Sebastian Oviedo.
- José Torres.
- Andrés Castaño.
- Juliana Forero.
- Julian Hernandez.
Undergrad students
- Maria Fernanda Pardo.
- Maria Angarita.
- Lino Guevara.
- Nicolás Romero.
- Lucía Guerrero.