Transcriptome Assembly, Automatic Annotation and Data Mining

Stefan Götz completed his Computer Science studies in Germany in 2004. He began his work in bioinformatics within the Biomedical Informatics group at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. There, he started to work in the area of Functional Annotation of novel sequence data. He then became the main developer of the Blast2GO project. In March 2007, he joined the Bioinformatics and Genomics Department of the Prince Felipe Research Centre (CIPF) where he concluded his PhD studies in 2010, and continued to work as a staff scientist until 2011. In recent years, he has been involved in various bioinformatics projects related to the analysis and visualisation of genomics data, protein interaction networks, modelling of phenotype information and NGS data processing. He is founder and the managing director of BioBam Bioinformatics.

Riccardo Aiese Cigliano took a bachelor and a master degree in Biotechnological Sciences in Italy in 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 2008 he attended to an advanced course on plant genomics and post-genomics, coordinated by the Institute of Plant Genetics (IGV) - National Council Research (CNR). He has attended several courses about the application of bioinformatics and molecular biology to the study of plant genomes and transcriptomes. In 2011 he concluded his PhD with a thesis on the role of histone modifiers in plant reproduction and in 2012 he joined the Gregor Mendel Institute (Austria) for a post-doc fellowship to study the role of chromatin remodeling in DNA double strand breaks. In 2013 he founded Sequentia Biotech in Barcelona where he is also the scientific director and he is managing the transcriptomics and epigenomics department.

basic knowledge in Molecular Biology and Statistics.