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Paolo Romano
Bioinformatics,
Biopolimers and Proteomics,
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro,
c/o Centro Biotecnologie Avanzate,
Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132 Genova, ITALY

Skype: p.romano

Email: paol...@domain.tld
Personal URL: http://www.nettab.org/promano/


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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, that from September 2011 merged with the main hospital of the town and is now part of the "IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro".

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.

Since 2004, he is working in the Bioinformatics laboratory. 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. He is author of about 50 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. Since 2010, he is Associated Editor of Briefings in Bioinformatics. Since 2013, he is member of the Honorary Editorial Board of Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry.
He coordinated the National Network for Oncology Bioinformatics (Rete Nazionale di Bioinformatica Oncologica - RNBIO) from 2007 to 2011. See the web site of the network.
He is presently coordinating the Liguria Bioinformatics Network (Rete Ligure di Bioinformatica - ReLiB). See the web site of the network (in Italian).
He is member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) from 2001 and of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS) since its foundation. He is member elected of BITS Steering Committee for the periods 2008-2010 and 2010-2012. From 2010 to 2012 he has been Secretary of BITS. He has been member of the Scientific Committee of BITS meetings since 2009.

Research projects (see also past projects)

Network Services and Tools

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

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

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.

  1. "CORBA and XML: towards a bioinformatics integrated network environment", Genova, May 17-18, 2001.
  2. "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.
  3. "Bioinformatics for the management, analysis and interpretation of microarray data", Bologna, November 27-28, 2003.
  4. "Models and metaphors from Biology to Bioinformatics Tools", Camerino, Macerata, September 5-7, 2004.
  5. "Workflows management: new abilities for the biological information overflow", Naples, October 5-7, 2005.
  6. "Distributed Applications, Web Services, Tools and GRID Infrastructures for Bioinformatics", Santa Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Sardinia, July 10-13, 2006.
  7. "A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications", Pisa, Tuscany, June 12-15, 2007.
    See also the slides presented at the end of NETTAB 2006.
  8. "Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex System Applications", Varenna, Como Lake, May 19-21, 2008.
    See also the slides presented at the end of NETTAB 2007.
  9. "Technologies, Tools and Applications for Collaborative and Social Bioinformatics Research and Development", Catania, Sicily, June 10-23, 2009.
    See also the slides presented at NETTAB 2008 by Rosalba Giugno.
  10. "Biological Wikis", Naples, Campania, November 29 - December 1, 2010.
  11. "Clinical Bioinformatics", Pavia, Lombardia, October 12-14, 2011.
  12. "Integrated Bio-Searches", Como, Mid November, 2011.
    See the slides presented at NETTAB 2011 by Marco Masseroli.

SWAT4LS Workshops
SWAT4LS is a workshop that started as a follow-up of the NETTAB 2007 workshop on "A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications".
It provides a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of Web based information systems and Semantic technologies in biomedical informatics and computational biology.
Usually, the workshop lasts one day and it is preceded by a one day hackathon and one day of tutorials. SWAT4LS provide an open and stimulating environment that bring together researchers, both developers and users, from the various fields of Biology, Bioinformatics and Computer Science, to discuss goals, current limits and real experiences in the use of semantic, web-based technologies in the Life Sciences and Biomedical Informatics.

  1. SWAT4LS 2008, November 28th, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
  2. SWAT4LS 2009, November 20th, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  3. SWAT4LS 2010, December 10th, 2010 Berlin, Germany.
    • Proceedings: CEUR Volume 698
    • Special issue: BMC Bioinformatics, Under preparation
  4. SWAT4LS 2011, December 9th, 2011, London, UK.
    • Proceedings: CEUR Volume planned
    • Special issue: Under discussion
  5. Location and date to be announced soon!

ReLiB (Rete Ligure di Bioinformatica - Liguria Bioinformatics Network)
ReLiB is an ongoing effort among bioinformatics groups in Liguria region to build up a critical mass of researchers collaborating on
ReLiB organizes GLiB workshops (Giornata Ligure di Bioinformatica - Liguria Bioinformatics Day) as a venue to present skill and expertise of partners and discuss on possible common projects.
The main groups participating in ReLiB are affiliated with the University of Genoa, the Genoa section of the National Research Council and some Research Hospital, including the Cancer Comprehensive Center San Martino IST and the Pediatric Hospital Gaslini.
See the current ReLiB web site in Google sites.

Some photographs
(More photographs here)

Miscellanea