Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute
The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII;
It consists of 10 distributed nodes, coordinated by a central node, encompassing the scopes of genomics, proteomics, functional genomics, structural biology, population genomics and genome diversity, health informatics, algorithm development and high-performance computing.[4]
It is the Spanish participant in the common data platform promoted by the European Union to ensure a rapid and coordinated response to the health crisis caused by COVID-19.[5] Their MareNostrum supercomputer has been used for testing the potential efficacy of compounds against SARS-CoV-2.[6]
Alfonso Valencia, former president of the International Society for Computational Biology, is the director.[7]
References
- ^ S2CID 28507895.
- ^ "España ya forma parte de Elixir, un proyecto europeo de bioinformática". La Vanguardia. 23 October 2015.
- ^ Pascual, Manuel G. (18 November 2015). "España entra en la élite europea de la bioinformática". Cinco Días.
- ^ Calvente, Natividad (2014). Organización, políticas e instrumentos de investigación biomédica en España (PDF). Madrid: Escuela Nacional de Sanidad. p. 27.
- ^ "España participa en la iniciativa común de datos lanzada por la UE para coordinar la respuesta al Covid-19". Infosalus. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ "En el MareNostrum llevamos semanas probando millones de fármacos contra el coronavirus". Sinc. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ "Pedro Duque se reúne con los responsables de los principales estudios de pacientes con COVID-19". Lacera. 11 June 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
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