Royo Garrido, Romina (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)
[eng] Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized biomedical sciences, especially in the area of cancer. It has nourished genomic research with extensive collections of sequenced genomes that ...
Planas Fèlix, Mercè (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)
The identification and analysis of genomic variation across individuals has been central in biology, first through comparative genomics to answer evolutionary questions, and then in the context of ...
Delgado Serrano, Luisa Fernanda (Date of defense: 2021-12-02)
Human cancer arises as a result of genomic alterations that transform cells and make them to grow without control and to pathological levels. The characterization of such genomic changes has enabled ...
Valls Margarit, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-06-08)
One of the central aims of biology and biomedicine has been the characterisation and understanding of genetic variation across humans, to answer important evolutionary questions and to explain phenotypic ...
Rodriguez Fos, Elias (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)
This thesis illustrates the work I have developed as a Ph.D. student in the computational genomics group lead by Dr. David Torrents at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The group’s expertise in the ...
Alonso Parrilla, Lorena (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] One of the major and most challenging goals of Biomedicine during the last centuries has been the study of the human biological mechanisms, and its relation with traits and diseases. Particularly, ...
Matías Sánchez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
[eng] In recent years, the genetics field has placed a significant emphasis on identifying and characterizing genetic factors contributing to complex diseases, alongside environmental factors. Genome-wide ...