This research activity include the following research topics:
1) Development of bioinformatics methodologies and spe¬cialized databases for taxonomic analysis and functional characterization of "omics" data.
2) Structural and functional annotation of the genome and study of the mechanisms of regulation of gene expression in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, viruses and organ¬elles (mitochondria and chloroplasts) through High-Through¬put Sequencing (HTS) technology and advanced bioinfor¬matics tools.
3) Taxonomic and functional characterization of the micro¬biome in environmental (including water, soil, sediments), clinical (including faeces, intestinal mucosa, respired air) and food (including intermediate products of fermenta¬tion chains) samples, based on metagenomic approaches through HTS technologies and advanced bioinformatics tools.
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