Paolo Romano	Bioinformatica, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, c/o Centro Biotecnologie Avanzate, Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10 I-16132 Genova, ITALY : +39-010-5737-288, Skype: p.romano, Fax: +39-010-5737-295 Email: paolo.romano@istge.it, paolo@nettab.org Personal URL: http://www.nettab.org/promano/
CV and Research interests - Projects - Network Services - Publications - Talks - NETTAB Workshops - Photographs - Miscellanea

Short CV and Research interests
Paolo Romano graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa, and got a PhD in BioEngineering at the Polytechnic of Milan.
From 1988 to 1990 he has been working for a small company, RST - Software Grafico e Scientifico, and from 1990 to 1993 he has been Researcher at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Oncology of the University of Genoa. Since 1993, he is a researcher at IST, the National Cancer Research Institute of Genoa.

Since 1989, his research interests were in the field of biomedical data management. He designed and contributed to the development of the Molecular Probe Data Base and of the Cell Line Data Base and its associated hypertext HyperCLDB. Recently, he contributed to the development of the Cell Line Integrated Molecular Authentication (CLIMA) Data Base. Since 1999 he is in charge of the CABRI (Common Access to Biological Resources and Information) network services offering living resources from 28 European collections [Romano, Kracht et al, 2005].

Since 2004, he is working in the Bioinformatics Structure. He has been involved in researches on network standards, technologies, tools and applications in bioinformatics. He designed and developed Biowep, the Workflow Enactment Portal for Bioinformatics [Romano, Bertolini et al, 2005 B]. He is author of about 30 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He taught academic courses "Bioimages" and "Bioinformatics" at the University of Genoa. He was the creator of Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB) workshops that are running annually since 2001. He participated in many Programme Committees and has been a referee for Bioinformatics and BMC Bioinformatics journals. He coordinates the National Network for Oncology Bioinformatics (Rete Nazionale di Bioinformatica Oncologica). See the web site of the network.

Research projects (see also past projects)

• Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Technologies in Bioinformatics (LITBIO)
  
• National Network for Oncology Bioinformatics
  

Network Services and Tools

• biowep, a Workflow Enactment Portal for Bioinformatics
  
• Cell Lines Data Base (CLDB) and HyperCLDB
  
• Cell Line Integrated Molecular Authentication (CLIMA) Data Base
  
• Common Access to Biological Resources and Information (CABRI)
  

A list of recent and selected publications
(If you are really interested in old times.... see a longer list here)

• N. Cannata, M. Schröder, R. Marangoni, P. Romano,
  A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications,
  BMC Bioinformatics, 2008 9(Suppl 4):S1
  DOI: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S4-S1
  PMID: 18460170
  

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• P. Romano, D. Marra,
  SWS: accessing SRS sites contents through Web Services,
  BMC Bioinformatics, 2008 9(Suppl 2):S15
  DOI: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S2-S15
  PMID: 18387203
  

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• [Romano, 2008]
  P. Romano,
  Automation of in-silico data analysis processes through workflow management systems,
  Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2008 9(1):57-68
  (doi:10.1093/bib/bbm056).
  PMID: 18056132
  

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• [Bartocci et al, 2007]
  E. Bartocci, D. Cacciagrano, N. Cannata, F. Corradini, Merelli, L. Milanesi, and P. Romano,
  An Agent-based Multilayer Architecture for Bioinformatics Grids,
  IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience (IEEE-TNB), 2007, 6(2):142-148.
  (doi:10.1109/TNB.2007.897492).
  

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• [Armano et al, 2007]
  G. Armano, V. Breton, L. Milanesi, P. Romano,
  Special Section on GRID, Web Services, Software Agents, and Ontology Applications for Life Sciences (Guest Editorial),
  IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience (IEEE-TNB), 2007, 6(2):101-103
  (doi:10.1109/TNB.2007.897434).
  

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• [Marra, Romano, 2007]
  Marra, D. and Romano, P.,
  Integrating mutation data of the TP53 human gene in the bioinformatics network environment,
  Proc. First International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development BIRD '07, March 12-14, 2007, Berlin,
  Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics LNBI 4414, pp. 453-463, 2007, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
  (doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71233-6_35).
  

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• [Romano, Bertolini et al, 2005 B]
  Romano P, Bartocci E, Bertolini G, De Paoli F, Marra D, Mauri G, Merelli E, Milanesi L,
  Biowep: a workflow enactment portal for bioinformatics applications,
  BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8(Suppl 1):S19
  Full free text on BioMed Central
  PMID: 17430563
  

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• [Romano, Bertolini et al, 2005 B]
  Romano P, Bertolini G, De Paoli F, Fattore M, Marra D, Mauri G, Merelli E, Porro I, Scaglione S, Milanesi L,
  Network integration of data and analysis of oncology interest.
  In Integrative Bioinformatics Yearbook 2005, Edited by R. Hofestadt, Aachen: Shaker Verlag; 2006: 111-121.
  ISBN: 3-8322-5268-1

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• [Romano, Bertolini et al, 2005 A]
  P. Romano, G. Bertolini, F. De Paoli, M. Fattore, D. Marra, G. Mauri, E. Merelli, I. Porro, S. Scaglione and L. Milanesi.
  Network integration of data and analysis of oncology interest.
  Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 0021, 2006.
  Online Journal: http://journal.imbio.de/index.php?paper_id=21
  

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• [Romano, Marra, Milanesi, 2005]
  Romano, P., Marra, D., and Milanesi, L.,
  Web services and workflow management for biological resources,
  BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6(Suppl 4):S24
  PMID: 16351751
  

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• [Romano, Dawyndt et al, 2005]
  Romano, P., Dawyndt, P., Piersigilli, F., and Swings, J.,
  Improving interoperability between microbial information and sequence databases,
  BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6(Suppl 4):S23
  PMID: 16351750
  

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• [Romano, Kracht et al, 2005]
  Romano, P., Kracht, M., Manniello, M.A., Stehehuis, G., Fritze, D.,
  The role of informatics in the coordinated management of biological resources collections.
  Appl Bioinformatics. 2005;4(3):175-86.
  PMID: 16231959
  

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• [Romano, Aresu et al, 2004]
  Romano, P., Aresu, O., Manniello, M.A., Parodi, B.,
  Interoperability of CABRI services and biochemical pathways databases,
  Comp Funct Genom 2004; 5:169-172
  (doi:10.1002/cfg.376). Abstract on-line.

A list of recent oral communications, seminars and lessons
(If you are curious... see a longer list here)

• P. Romano and M. Crescenzi, Rete Nazionale di Bioinformatica Oncologica (in italian), Convegno Nazionale sul Programma Straordinario Oncologico 2006, Rome, Italy, October 8, 2007
• D. Marra and P. Romano, Integrating mutation data of the TP53 human gene in the bioinformatics network environment, First International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Developmemt (BIRD '07), Berlin, Germany, March 12-14, 2007
• P. Romano, C. Rasi and D. Marra, The automation of bioinformatics processes through workflow management systems, Seventh Spanish Symposium on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JdB06), Zaragoza, Spain, November 20-22, 2006 (the abstract is also available)

NETTAB Workshops
NETTAB Workshops are a series of workshops focused on the most promising and innovative ICT tools and to their usefulness in Bioinformatics. These workshops aim to introduce participants to the evolving network standards and technologies that are being applied to the biology field.

2001. "CORBA and XML: towards a bioinformatics integrated network environment", Genova, May 17-18, 2001.
2002. "Agents in Bioinformatics", Bologna, July 12-14, 2002.
      See the workshop report presented at the BIXMAS (Bioinformatics and Multi-Agent Systems) satellite workshop of the AAMAS 2002 (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) conference.
2003. "Bioinformatics for the management, analysis and interpretation of microarray data", Bologna, November 27-28, 2003.
2004. "Models and metaphors from Biology to Bioinformatics Tools", Camerino, Macerata, September 5-7, 2004.
2005. "Workflows management: new abilities for the biological information overflow", Naples, October 5-7, 2005.
2006. "Distributed Applications, Web Services, Tools and GRID Infrastructures for Bioinformatics", Santa Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Sardinia, July 10-13, 2006.
2007. "A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications", Pisa, Tuscany, June 12-15, 2007.
      See the slides presented at the end of NETTAB 2006.
2008. "Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex System Applications", Varenna, Como Lake, May 19-21, 2008.
      See the slides presented at the end of NETTAB 2007.
2009. "Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development", Catania, Sicily, June 10-23, 2008.
      See the slides presented at NETTAB 2008 by Rosalba Giugno.

Some photographs
(More photographs here)

• BITS 2005 in Milan, Lombardia, Italy
• Andy Emerson and I at the "A Casa Mia" Restaurant (by Andreas Kremer)
• ISMB/ECCB 2004 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Angelo Facchiano and me in the Congress Center hall (by Anna Marabotti)
• Last Dinner in Glasgow (by Manuela Citterich)
• Unusual meeting
• SRS Users General Meeting, Cambridge, England, UK
• Along the river Cam on the boat with Martti Tolvanen (by Jukka Lehtiniemi)
• Biocomp 2002 at Certosa di Pontignano
• Relaxing in the biliard room
• Family and friends photographs
• Guess who's who (friends)
• Guess who's who (family)

Miscellanea

• Membership in Scientific Societies
  
  
• Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS) ("Socio Ordinario" since its creation)
  
  
• International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)
  
  
• Bioinformatics.org (member since Aug 08, 2000, Uder ID is 132, members as of May 30, 2008 are more than 25,000)
  
  
• Newspapers I read
  
  
• La Repubblica