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What is this about?

This is Nicolás Antonio López Rozo's homepage. Currently, I am a Doctorate Candidate (4th year) in Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Cali (Colombia).

I earned B.S.Eng. and M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito (Bogotá). My M.Sc. studies focused on water resources and the environment, and for my Thesis a distributed, process-based hydrological model was developed in Python (TACD2).

Currently, my research interests are algorithms and software engineering, more specifically on applications of computer science knowledge & techniques in different fields such as biology.

My PhD Thesis revolves around predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) using different levels of biological information ("omics" levels). More info can be found here.


You can contact me by:

  • email: nicolaslopez [at] javerianacali.edu.co

  • email: nicolas.lopez-r [at] mail.escuelaing.edu.co

Latest News (News Archive here)

20 December, 2022

New paper: The paper "Gene Expression Datasets for Two Versions of the Saccharum spontaneum AP85-441 Genome" was published on Data, from MDPI. The paper can be found here.

02 December, 2022

New collaboration in paper: The paper "GOCompare: An R package to compare functional enrichment analysis between two species" was published on Genomics, from Elsevier. The paper can be found here.

16 - 18 November, 2022

I presented two parts of my work on the OMICAS symposium 2022. The first one is related to creating gene co-expression networks and predicting functional annotations. The second one is a new approach to predict protein-protein interaction (PPI). Click for more info and video (2:04:56 and 3:27:37)

31 August, 2022 - 01 February 2023

I am currently doing an international internship for my PhD in Düsseldorf, Germany, at the Heinrich Heine University. More specifically, I am working in the Quantitative and Theoretical Biology Institute, which works with the Cluster of Excellence on Plants Sciences (CEPLAS), which is actually very similar to OMICAS.