Opening Keynote: "Bioinformatics: biology by other means"

Alfonso Valencia

• He is a founding member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and President of this society from 2015 to 2018.
• His research is focused on studying biomedical systems with computational biology and bioinformatics approaches.
• He has participated in several international consortia, such as Genecode/ENCODE, the International Cancer Genome Consortium, and the International Human Epigenomics Consortium.