Universidad de las Ciencias InformáticasHead of the Bioinformatic R&D Group
Sep. 2004 - Aug. 2010Havana, CubaAs a Head of the Bioinformatics Research Group, I organized the work of more than 30 professionals from different areas as Biochemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Information Technologies; and 200+ students between 3er and 5th of the Information Science Engineers course. The work was organized into 9 Research & Developed projects that tried to solve problems for the Research Centers of the Scientific Pole of the West of Havana, Cuba. Some of the main projects were: - BioSyS: Biologic System Simulator
- J-IMMSIM: Immune System Simulator
- Grato: Computer-Aided Drug Design Framework
- LIMS: Laboratory Information Management System for the CIGB, Cuba.
- T-arenal: Platform of Distributed Tasks
- BioNova: Bioinformatic Linux Distribution
- Farmaco-kinetic web App Additionally I organizes: - Scientific seminars and conferences
- Advanced and postgraduate courses
- Coordinate the program of Master in Bioinformatics, which took place in two editions 2005-2007 and 2008-2010.
- Guarantee the quality of the complete flow of software development, from the definition of the requirements to the quality tests of the software, its implementation, and its future maintenance and improvement. Main results:
- The Bioinformatics Research Group was the best research group of the University in 2007, 2008 and 2009
- The Software BioSyS and T-arenal were registered in the Cuban Office of Intellectual Property
- The algorithms and software developed by the group were used by the Research Centers of the Scientific Pole of the West of Havana to conduct its investigations.