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	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: 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.

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 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.

He has been member of the Scientific Committee of BITS '09, the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society.

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)

Zappa A, Miele M, Romano P.
IBWS: IST Bioinformatics Web Services.
Nucleic Acids Research 2010;
DOI: doi:10.1093/nar/gkq416
PMID: 20484374

Milanesi L, Romano P, Castellani G, Remondini D, Liò P.
Trends in modeling Biomedical Complex Systems.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 12):I1
DOI: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S12-I1
PMID: 19828068

Corradi L, Mirisola V, Porro I, Torterolo L, Fato M, Romano P, Pfeffer U.
Survival Online: a web-based service for the analysis of correlations between gene expression and clinical and follow-up data.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 12):S10
DOI: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S12-S10
PMID: 19828070

Burger A, Romano P, Paschke A, Splendiani A.
Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, 2008 (Preface).
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 10):S1
DOI: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S10-S1
PMID: 19796393

P. Romano, A. Manniello, O. Aresu, M. Armento, M. Cesaro, B. Parodi
Cell Line Data Base: structure and recent improvements towards molecular authentication of human cell lines,
Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Database issue):D925-D932
DOI: doi:10.1093/nar/gkn730
PMID: 18927105

P. Romano, A. Splendiani,
Applications of Semantic Web methodologies and techniques to biology and bioinformatics,
Reasoning Web 2008, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences LNCS 5224, pp. 200-239, 2008, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85658-0_6

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

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

[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

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.