Category Archives: science
Lili and Marta receive prizes at the VHIO Computational Oncology Awards
On Feb 21 2024 the VHIO Computational Oncology Award 2024 was celebrated at UAB Casa de la Convalescència. The finalists to the master thesis award presented their works as a 5′ flash talk and a poster session. Two members of … Continue reading
Our research on de novo genes featured in Nature News
Research on de novo genes has been the subject of a News Feature in Nature, written by Adam Levy. The article presents the case of the arctic cod; comparison of genomic sequences from closely related fish species has shown that … Continue reading
Filed under de novo gene evolution, science, transcriptomics
Thousands of small ORFs are translated, what are they doing?
The high throughput sequencing of ribosome-protected RNA fragments, or ribosome profiling (Ribo-Seq), has uncovered the translation of thousands of novel small ORFs (< 100 amino acids) that were not annotated. These ORFs had remained hidden from annotation pipelines because of … Continue reading
Filed under de novo gene evolution, proteomics, ribosome profiling, science
Our group portrayed at El.lipse
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Our group at Saló de l’Ensenyament (Education Fair)
How can we analyze genomes? What is junk DNA? Why is bioinformatics useful? Today, members from our group have been trying to explain these questions to the visitors of the Education Fair. The stand included a very realistic piece of … Continue reading
When we fail to detect homologues in other species, is it because they are too divergent or because they do not exist?
The increasing number of genomes available has made it possible to compare the genes and determine in which branch of the phylogenetic tree they are likely to have originated. This has led to the identification of many genes that are … Continue reading
Filed under de novo gene evolution, science, society
“Origins of de novo genes in human and chimpanzee” published in Plos Genetics
Novel genes are continuously emerging during evolution, but what drives this process? We have published a study in PLOS Genetics in which we find that the fortuitous appearance of certain combinations of elements in the genome can lead to the … Continue reading
Filed under de novo gene evolution, lncRNA, Papers, science
Bioinformatics for all
Several volunteers from GRIB explained what bionformatics is to non-experts during the 2015 PRBB open day on Oct 18 2015. Will Blevins and José Luis Villanueva from the Evolutionary Genomics group tried to convey the concept of “orphan genes” using … Continue reading
Filed under de novo gene evolution, education, science, society
Why are we so few?
The issue of the under-representation of women in permanent academic positions continues to be the subject of many public and informal discussions. This week, the sexist comments by a Nobel Laureate in a public conference have made it to the … Continue reading
PRBB open day: the link to society
On October 4 2014 the PRBB held its annual Open Day. The doors opened to visitors and scientists explained their work. Will and José Luis from our group volunteered to talk about genomics and the research they do in a … Continue reading
