Personal information:
Full Name: Antonio Carlos Mora Ortiz
Short Name: Antonio Mora
Nationality: Colombian
Title：Associate professor
Degree：Doctorate
Research field：Bioinformatics
Email: antoniocmora@gzhmu.edu.cn
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonio-mora-88188530
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Mora2
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CRTu4BcAAAAJ&hl=en
Loop: http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/144462/overview

Website:https://mora-lab.github.io/

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1344-1131

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
1. Ph.D., DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES, University of Oslo (Norway), 2012
* Thesis Project: «Protein Interaction Data and Network Medicine», 2012
2. MASTER IN BIOINFORMATICS, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), 2004
* Thesis Project: «Modelling Glucose de-repression in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae», 2004
3. ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN PRINCIPLES OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE, Birkbeck College (University of London), 2002
4. M.Sc. IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (major Biotechnology), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1998
* Thesis Project: «An Approach to Chemical Engineering Science from Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry», 1998
5. B.Sc. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Universidad de América (Colombia), 1995
* Thesis Project: «Alkylation Plant of Butanes and Butylenes», 1995
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
1. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Joint School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University (GMU) and Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Guangzhou (China), 2017-present
2. POST-DOC RESEARCHER, Department of Biosciences (IBV) and Department of Informatics (IFI), University of Oslo, Oslo (Norway), 2014-2016
3. RESEARCHER, Laboratory of Integrative Systems Medicine, Insitute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa (Italy), 2013-2014
4. TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of Molecular Biosciences (IMBV), University of Oslo, Oslo (Norway), 2007-2012
Supervised Courses:
1.MBV-3070 («Bioinformatics») (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ibv/MBV3070/index-eng.html),
2.MBV-3020 («Molecular Genetics and Developmental Biology») (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ibv/MBV3020/index-eng.html),
3.MBV-4010 («Methods in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry I») (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ibv/MBV4010/index-eng.html),
4.MBV-INF 4410 («Applied Readings in Bioinformatics» until 2008, and «Bioinformatics for Molecular Biology» from 2009 on) (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ibv/MBV-INF4410/).
5.DIRECTOR «Centro de Investigaciones» («Research Centre»), University CECAR, Sincelejo (Colombia), http://www.cecar.edu.co/, 2005-2006
6. TEACHER, University CECAR, Sincelejo (Colombia), http://www.cecar.edu.co/, 1999-2003
* Courses: Numerical Methods, Research Methodology, among others.
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS:
1. Boris Simovski, et al. (2017), GSuite HyperBrowser: integrative analysis of dataset collections across the genome and epigenome, GigaScience, Vol 6, Issue 7, 1–12, doi:10.1093/gigascience/gix032
2.Antonio Mora, Geir-Kjetil Sandve, Odd Stokke Gabrielsen, and Ragnhild Eskeland (2015), In the loop: Promoter-Enhancer Interactions and Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbv097
3. Antonio Mora, Monia Taranta, Nazar Zaki, Caterina Cinti, and Enrico Capobianco (2015), Epigenetically driven network cooperativity: meta-analysis in multi-drug resistant osteosarcoma, Journal of complex networks, doi:10.1093/comnet/cnv017
4.Antonio Mora, et al. (2015), Prognostic models in Coronary Artery Disease: Cox and Network approaches, Royal Society Open Science 2(2), 140270
5.Nazar Zaki and Antonio Mora (2015), Characterization of Protein Complexes and Subcomplexes in Protein-protein Interaction Databases, Biochemistry Research International, doi:10.1155/2015/245075
6. Enrico Capobianco, Antonio Mora, Dario La-Sala, Annalisa Roberti, Nazar Zaki, Elarbi Badidi, Monia Taranta and Caterina Cinti (2014), Separate and combined effects of DNMT and HDAC inhibitors in treating human multi-drug resistant osteosarcoma HosDXR150 cell line, PLOS ONE 9(4), e95596
7.Antonio Mora, Monia Taranta, Nazar Zaki, Elarbi Badidi, Caterina Cinti and Enrico Capobianco (2014), Ensemble inference by integrative cancer networks, Front. Genet. 5:59, doi:10.3389/fgene.2014.00059
8. Nazar Zaki and Antonio Mora (2014), A comparative analysis of computational approaches and algorithms for protein subcomplex identification, Sci. Rep. Mar 3; 4: 4262, doi:10.1038/srep04262
9.Antonio Mora, Katerina Michalickova and Ian Donaldson (2013), A survey of protein interaction data and multigenic inherited disorders, BMC Bioinformatics 14(1), 47
10. Antonio Mora and Ian Donaldson (2012), Effects of protein interaction data integration, representation and reliability on the use of network properties for drug target prediction, BMC Bioinformatics, 13:294
11.Antonio Mora and Ian Donaldson (2011), iRefR: an R package to manipulate the iRefIndex consolidated protein interaction database, BMC Bioinformatics, 12:455
12.Sabry Razick, Antonio Mora, Katerina Michalickova, Paul Boddie and Ian Donaldson (2011), iRefScape. A Cytoscape plug-in for visualization and data mining of protein interaction data from iRefIndex, BMC Bioinformatics, 12:388
13.Antonio Mora, Gene Set Analysis in biomedical sciences: A comprehensive review and a set of practical guidelines using public resources, submitted to Frontiers in Public Health
14.M.L. Fosslie, Beata Nadratowska-Wesolowska, Antonio Mora, et al., Histone variant H2A.Z.2 localises to the same genomic regions as H2A.Z.1, and is a regulator of key developmental genes in embryonic stem cells, submitted to Nucleic Acids Research
WRITTEN SOFTWARE:
1. Genomic Hyperbrowser Team, The Genomic Hyperbrowser, https://hyperbrowser.uio.no/hb/, University of Oslo, 2014-2016
2.Antonio Mora and Ian Donaldson, iRefR, R package to work with the consolidated protein interaction database iRefIndex, http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/iRefR/index.html, University of Oslo, 2011
3.Antonio Mora and Ian Donaldson, MAGRATHEA, Animation and Particle-based Simulation Software of Biological Pathways, http://irefindex.org/wiki/index.php?title=Magrathea, University of Oslo, 2009
4.Antonio Mora, Various software, GitHub profile, https://github.com/antonio-mora