Andy Emerson and I at the 'A Casa Mia' Restaurant (by Andreas Kremer)
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)

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 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 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, 2008.
    See the slides presented at NETTAB 2008 by Rosalba Giugno.

Some photographs
(More photographs here)

Miscellanea

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