Software

We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions! This cohort will participate in the program and carry out their work in Spanish, allowing us to continue strengthening the open science and research software development community in this language. We’re excited about the projects they’ll be developing, which tackle real-world challenges across diverse disciplines and regions of Latin America. We invite you to get to know each of these individuals and the projects they’ll be working on throughout the program.

(Spanish; 5 minutes) Presentation at the Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D 2024. Here I talk about what gene-environment interactions are and how we can identify them in DNA methylation using RAMEN.

(English; 13 minutes) Oral presentation at the International Conference on Bioinformatics 2024 ISCB-Latin America SoIBio CCBCOL.

Infancy and early childhood are highly sensitive periods in human development. DNA methylation (DNAme), an epigenetic tag that is deposited on DNA, has been proposed as one of the mechanisms by which early life experiences can become biologically embedded. This project aims to model DNA methylation variability and the contribution of genetic variation and environmental differences to it.

(10 minutes) Presentation at the Vancouver Bioinformatics User Group meeting in September 2023. Sharing the stage with my supervisor Dr. Keegan Korthauer, who talks about the overall research themes in our lab.

R package whose goal is to identify Variable Methylated Regions (VMRs) in microarray DNA methylation data. Additionally, using Genotype (G) and Environmental (E) data, it can identify which G, E, G+E or GxE model better explains this variability.s