The OneGene group
OneGene project started in 2010 as a joint effort of three research groups sharing their complementary expertise in the fields of biology, bioinformatics and computation and a common interest in understanding the secrets of life.
- The Grapevine Physiology and Breeding Unit (Fondazione Edmund Mach)
Mission of the Research Unit is the functional characterization of grapevine genes to understand how they relate to plant defense against fungal pathogens as well as fruit development and quality. The researchers Stefania Pilati, Claudio Moser, Giulia Malacarne, Lisa Giacomelli and Carlotta Pirrello contribute to develop gene network analysis tools to shed light on genes’ molecular interactions and to formulate new hypothesis to be tested in the lab.
- Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (Università di Trento)
The Department explores all the main topics of information technology and engineering with a focus on Computer Science and Information Engineering. Prof. Enrico Blanzieri has a long standing experience in data mining and machine learning applied to different fields including biology. Back in 2010 he had the idea of applying the PC algorithm to gene expression data for gene network inference…and step by step he managed. Many students of Enrico’s group successfully contributed to this project: Emanuela Coller, Francesco Asnicar and Luca Masera, during their PhD, Gabriele Tomé and Laura Riscica, Riccardo Monticello, Camilla Pelagalli, Elia Tomasi during their bachelor thesis, Tommaso Oss and Nikolas Plattner, during their internship period as undergraduated students.
- Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (National Research Council)
IMEM develops interdisciplinary research approaches in the field of Materials Science, which include advanced methods of synthesis and characterization of materials, as well as device manufacturing technologies, designed with the aim of exploring and demonstrating the functional properties of the materials themselves. Dr. Valter Cavecchia contributes to IMEM by supporting the computational needs. For this he stepped into Distributed Volunteer Computing based on BOINC and he provided the OneGene group the large computational resources required to expand all the genes of Vitis. To this end, he describes each application in the BOINC forum and pays particular attention to the requests of the volunteers.
