Bioinformatics using Python for Biomedical Researchers

Allegra Via is a physicist and scientific researcher at the Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics (IBBE) of the National Research Council (CNR, Bari, IT). In 2003, she got her PhD at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", where she also worked six years as postdoc. In 2009 she moved to the Sapienza University as researcher, and, since January 2016, she works full time as the ELIXIR Italy Training Coordinator. She is involved in the design, organisation and delivery of bioinformatics training courses, in Train the Trainer activities, and collaborates with other ELIXIR's nodes on many training-related initiatives. She has a long track record of academic teaching (Macromolecular Structures, Python programming, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Protein interactions). Her main research interests include protein structural bioinformatics, protein function prediction and analysis, and protein interactions. She is a member of the Global Organisation of Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET) and a Software/Data Carpentry instructor. She has created the first Python course in GTPB in 2010 and has been an instructor in all the editions of GTPB ever since. In 2014, she co-authored "Managing your biological data with Python", a book that budded from her experience as a training designer and as an instructor.

Affiliation: IBBE, CNR, Bari, IT

Vincenza Colonna is a group leader at the Institue of Genetics and Biophysics of the Italian National Research Council in Napoli, Italy. She works in human genomics and her main research interests are natural selection and consanguineous populations. She graduated from University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and did postdoctoral work at University of Ferrara (Italy) and at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK). She was lecturer in Genetics and Bioinformatics at the University of Ferrara (Italy). She is also leading the ObiLab project (http://www.igb.cnr.it/popgenlab/research) on training in bioinformatics. She is an instructor for ELIXIR-ITA and Software/Data Carpentry. She is also involved as collaborator and instructor in the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer activities.

Affiliation: Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, Napoli, IT