Biography

I am a bioinformatician currently at the T-cell immunogenicity virus (TIV) group led by Christian Brander at IrsiCaixa. My academic research interests include data integration (my Ph.D. topic) and functional enrichment.

Besides my work in biomedicine, I use my skills to make data transparency accessible. I mainly use R to gather data and answer questions to provide insights and make informed decisions. I collaborate with several organizations R Foundation, R Consortium and Bioconductor, where I maintain some packages, CRAN, rOpenSci, rOpenSpain, and GitHub.
Outside programming I enjoy hiking, jumping rope, and diabolo as hobbies.

Interests

  • Functional enrichment
  • Data integration
  • Improving process

Education

  • PhD in Biomedicnie (Bioinformatics), 2022

    Universitat de Barcelona

  • MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Science, 2017

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  • BSc in Biotechnology, 2015

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

PostDoc Bioinformatician

IrsiCaixa

December 2022 – Present Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing RNA-seq

  • Building reports and provide statistical support

  • Assessing design of sequencing experiments

 
 
 
 
 

Bioinformatician/PostDoc

IDIBAPS

July 2022 – November 2022 Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing RNA-seq and microbiome data (16S)
  • Modelling relation between microbiome and mucosal intestine
  • Building reports
  • Assessing design of sequencing experiments
  • Managing the group server
 
 
 
 
 

PhD student

CIBEREHD

April 2018 – June 2022 Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing RNA-seq and microbiome data (16S)
  • Modelling relation between microbiome and mucosal intestine
  • Building reports
  • Assessing design of sequencing experiments
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Mind the byte

April 2015 – July 2015 Barcelona
Implement a way to download and update data from public databases.
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

FH Campus Wien

September 2013 – June 2014 Vienna
As a visiting Erasmus student I did an internship where I learned about differential gene expression analysis. Implemented topGO into the analysis pipeline. Analyzed Pichia pastoris

Recent Posts

Mainly entries about R and with code. Other content might be on my blog at b101nfo

rtweet future

How support for rtweet will continue going forward.
Last updated on Feb 16, 2023 5 min read OSS

Accessing REDCap from R

Summarize packages related to REDCap
Last updated on Feb 8, 2023 3 min read r

Starting as a pet bioinformatician

In my other blog, I posted some views as a pet bioinformatician. I am starting in a new position but with more experience, I think it will help me and other people in the same position.
Last updated on Jan 28, 2023 5 min read bioinformatics

Exploring CRAN's files: part 2

Introduction In the first post of the series we briefly explored packages available on CRAN. Now I’ll focus on history of the packages and its size using the following files:
Last updated on Sep 3, 2022 7 min read CRAN, r

Exploring CRAN's files: part 1

Exploration of the CRAN archive: First part about packages published on CRAN
Last updated on Jul 25, 2022 13 min read CRAN, r
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Last talks

My talks

Los paquetes van a CRAN

A short presentation in Spanish about submitting a package to CRAN and maintain it.
Nov 25, 2022 12:00 AM — 12:20 PM Córdoba
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Releasing packages

Package development, release and maintenance process based on several other posts and presentations on this blog.
Jan 16, 2022 12:00 AM — Jan 29, 2022 12:00 AM online
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Improving (analysis) process: developing packages

I was invited to give this talk shortly after my talk at useR!2021. I was very nervous because I would like to have such a community on Spain and work together with them.
Nov 11, 2021 12:00 AM — Nov 9, 2021 12:06 AM
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Workshop: Creating packages

I was invited by Francis Mensha on R-devel slack to give this workshop on April 29th for the R User Group Ghana. First time teaching R stats and remote I expected people to follow the workshop and run the code and then ask questions but I was asked to do it myself.
Oct 20, 2021 12:00 AM
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Packages submission and reviews; how does it work?

Description of the submission process to CRAN
Oct 16, 2021 12:00 AM
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