Bioinformatics and Genomics

RECOMB 2012 (the 16th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology) will take place in vibrant and beautiful Barcelona from the 21 to 24 April 2012. On this year's conference there will be a strong focus on the computational challenges arising from the extraordinary developments in high throughput technologies. Participants will enjoy a full agenda of keynote talks, paper presentations, and poster sessions, with ample opportunities to get a sample some of the city life of Barcelona. The meeting also overlaps with Sant Jordi (Saint George), on April 23, the patron of Catalonia, and one of the most important civic holidays in the country. In order to get more information on RECOMB 2012 and how to register please click here.

---PLEASE NOTE EARLY REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 31 JANUARY 2012!!---

On the 10-11 of November 2011 our group headed by Roderic Guigo will be organizing a two-day CRG symposium on “Computational Biology of Molecular Sequences” which will bring together renowned Computational Biologists from around the world, including both pioneers in the field, as well as promising young scientists. Presentations, discussions and dialogue during the Symposium will contribute to survey the status of a discipline that, at the intersection of Biology and Computation, will have an enormous impact on the world of the XXIst century.

You may obtain more information on the objectives of the symposium, the current list of confirmed speakers and instructions on how to register by clicking here. The poster of the symposium can be downloaded by clicking here.

The "Centre de Regulació Genòmica" (CRG) and the "Centre de Recerca Matemàtica" (CRM) have co-organized a one-day meeting on “Mathematics in Genomics and Systems Biology” on Oct 22 2010 at the Parc de Recerca Biomèdica of Barcelona (PRBB).

The purpose of this joint meeting was to bring together two scientific communities -biologists and mathematicians- and explore research interfaces between both. Invited researchers from CRG and PRBB presented those aspects of their work more appealing to mathematical approach, while mathematicians linked to CRM will talk about mathematical models of potential interest to experimentalists.

You may access the meeting's agenda and the presentations of many of the symposium speakers by clicking here

Roderic Guigo and former post-Doc Thomas Derrien were involved in a study recently published in the journal Cell that looked into the function of the long noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). This type of RNA molecule constitutes a large portion of the mammalian transcriptome even though their biological functions remained unclear. This study helped shed light on the role of long ncRNAs. For example it was shown 1) that long ncRNAs activate neighboring protein-coding genes, 2) activating long ncRNAs have a similar behavior to that of enhancer elements and 3) more specifically, the depletion of both genes directly involved in hematopoiesis or its adjacent ncRNA both show similar cellular migration defects.