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Researcher Josep F. Abril of the IBUB, one of the most cited scientists in the world

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 05.11.2010

Researcher Josep F. Abril of the IBUB, one of the most cited scientists in the world

Josep F. Abril, researcher at the Department of Genetics of the UB and at the Institute of Biomedicine of the UB (IBUB) –located at the Barcelona Science Park- is one of the most cited authors worldwide according to the ISI Web of Knowledge, a free access international database that analyses the impact of scientific activity. Within this select group there are only four Catalan researchers: Joan Rodés, Damià Barceló, Jordi Galí and Josep F. Abril. The 22 other Spanish scientists that complete this ranking include Mariano Barbacid, Manuel Aguilar-Benítez de Lugo and Fernando Baquero, as well as others linked to Catalan entities such as Ezio Biglieri (Pompeu Fabra University) or José María Palacios (Almirall Prodesfarma).

Josep F. Abril, a computational biology expert, is part of the UB’s Consolidated Research Group for Development Biology and Genetics, a group affiliated with the UB’s Department of Genetics, and also a member of the Bioinformatics Unit of the IBUB. His research activity focuses on the computational analysis of signals involved in the determination of exonic structures of the eukaryote genes (in processes such as cut and union splicing), the prediction of genes in genomic sequences using bioinformatic tools and the validation of these predictions. He was part of the scientific team that elaborated one of the first drafts of the human genome, published in the Science journal in 2001.

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