People and Thanks

Project leadership and funding

OpenCGA -as the rest of OpenCB- project was started by Ignacio Medina at Dr. Joaquin Dopazo group at CIPF (http://bioinfo.cipf.es/). Today OpenCGA is actively developed at Computational Biology Lab at HPC Service (University of Cambridge, UK). The main developers are:

• Ignacio Medina (imedina@ebi.ac.uk): Software Architect, Bioinformatician and Project Manager (HPC Service, University Cambridge)
• Jacobo Coll (jacobo.coll-moragon@genomicsengland.co.uk): Software Developer (Genomics England)
• Cristina Y. Gonzalez (cyenyxe@ebi.ac.uk): Software Engineer and HPC Developer (EBI Variation)
• Jose M. Mut (jmmut@ebi.ac.uk): Software Developer (EBI Variation)

Main contributors

Contributors are sorted chronologically.

Computational Genomics (CIPF)

Computational Genomics department at CIPF is led by Dr. Joaquin Dopazo. He has been a very important contributor to all OpenCB project since the beginning (about 2012-2013). Today he and his team are still playing an important role in both providing ideas and software development. They are also developing BierApp tool for gene and variant prioritization which is likely to be one of the most advanced web applications implemented over OpenCGA. Some people involved are:

• Francisco Salavert (fsalavert@cipf.es): Software Engineer and Web Developer
• Alejandro Aleman (aaleman@cipf.es): Software Engineer
• Roberto Alonso (ralonso@cipf.es): Software Engineer

EBI Variation (EMBL-EBI)

EBI Variation team is led by Dr. Justin Paschall. Since 2014 he has been using and contributing to some OpenCB projects including OpenCGA. His ideas and suggestions have been very important. He is actively involved in developing the Variant Annotation and Big Data storage using MongoBD database. Some people involved are:

• Cristina Y. Gonzalez (cyenyxe@ebi.ac.uk): Software Engineer
• Jose M. Mut (jmmut@ebi.ac.uk): Software Developer
• F. Javier Lopez (fjlopez@ebi.ac.uk): Software Engineer and Bioinformatician

Platelet Biology Group (University of Cambridge)

Dr. Stefan Graf is since 2014 a main collaborator and an important contributor. They are actively involved in big data storage and analysis for genomic variant using Hadoop technologies. Some people partially involved:

• Matthias Haimel (mh719@cam.ac.uk): Software Engineer and Bioinformatician