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bioinformatics, web services, Tools, job dispatcher, EMBL-EBI, EBI Search, sequence analysis
United Kingdom

Biography

About my team and what we do at the EMBL-EBI: The Web production team, led by Rodrigo Lopez, focuses on three major areas of service: developing and providing platforms for web services; maintaining web infrastructure; and providing robust and secure frameworks for deploying public bioinformatics services. The team maintains and develops the EBI search engine and job dispatcher framework as well as their corresponding SOAP/REST Web Services. Web production also provides access to core services for project management (document management, project documentation and issue tracking, source code control) and user support.

Activities

Employment (2)

European Bioinformatics Institute: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

1996-05-01 to present | Group Leader (External Services - Web Production )
Employment
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Lopez R

University of Oslo: Oslo, NO

1990-01-01 to 1996-05-01 | Staff Scientist/Systems Administrator (Biotechnology Centre of Oslo)
Employment
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Lopez R

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Oslo: Oslo, NO

1987 to present | Cand. Scient/BSc Molecular Toxicology (Institute of Cell Biology)
Education
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Lopez R

Funding (1)

Web Services for Life Sciences Catalogue (WS4LS)

2008-04-14 to 2011-04-13 | Grant
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/F010540/1
GRANT_NUMBER: BB/F010540/1
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The EMBL-EBI Job Dispatcher sequence analysis tools framework in 2024

Nucleic Acids Research
2024-07-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Fábio Madeira; Nandana Madhusoodanan; Joonheung Lee; Alberto Eusebi; Ania Niewielska; Adrian R N Tivey; Rodrigo Lopez; Sarah Butcher
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Search and sequence analysis tools services from EMBL-EBI in 2022

Nucleic Acids Research
2022-07-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Fábio Madeira; Matt Pearce; Adrian R N Tivey; Prasad Basutkar; Joon Lee; Ossama Edbali; Nandana Madhusoodanan; Anton Kolesnikov; Rodrigo Lopez
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The COVID-19 Data Portal: accelerating SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research through rapid open access data sharing

Nucleic Acids Research
2021-07-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Peter W Harrison; Rodrigo Lopez; Nadim Rahman; Stefan Gutnick Allen; Raheela Aslam; Nicola Buso; Carla Cummins; Yasmin Fathy; Eloy Felix; Mihai Glont et al.
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The European Nucleotide Archive in 2020.

Nucleic acids research
2020-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Harrison PW; Ahamed A; Aslam R; Alako BTF; Burgin J; Buso N; Courtot M; Fan J; Gupta D; Haseeb M et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021.

Nucleic acids research
2020-11 | Journal article
Contributors: UniProt Consortium
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

R2DT: computational framework for template-based RNA secondary structure visualisation across non-coding RNA types

2020-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Sweeney BA; Hoksza D; Nawrocki EP; Ribas CE; Madeira F; Cannone JJ; Gutell R; Maddala A; Meade C; Williams LD et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
2020-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Drysdale R; Cook CE; Petryszak R; Baillie-Gerritsen V; Barlow M; Gasteiger E; Gruhl F; Haas J; Lanfear J; Lopez R et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The bio.tools registry of software tools and data resources for the life sciences.

Genome biology
2019-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Ison J; Ienasescu H; Chmura P; Rydza E; Ménager H; Kalaš M; Schwämmle V; Grüning B; Beard N; Lopez R et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019.

Nucleic acids research
2019-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Madeira F; Park YM; Lee J; Buso N; Gur T; Madhusoodanan N; Basutkar P; Tivey ARN; Potter SC; Finn RD et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Using EMBL-EBI Services via Web Interface and Programmatically via Web Services.

Current protocols in bioinformatics
2019-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Madeira F; Madhusoodanan N; Lee J; Tivey ARN; Lopez R
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences

2019-04-05 | Other
Contributors: Rachel Drysdale; Charles E. Cook; Robert Petryszak; Vivienne Baillie-Gerritsen; Mary Barlow; Elisabeth Gasteiger; Franziska Gruhl; Jürgen Haas; Jerry Lanfear; Rodrigo Lopez et al.
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InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations.

Nucleic acids research
2018-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Mitchell AL; Attwood TK; Babbitt PC; Blum M; Bork P; Bridge A; Brown SD; Chang HY; El-Gebali S; Fraser MI et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2018: tools, infrastructure and training.

Nucleic acids research
2018-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Cook CE; Lopez R; Stroe O; Cochrane G; Brooksbank C; Birney E; Apweiler R
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge.

Nucleic acids research
2018-11 | Journal article
Contributors: UniProt Consortium
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

HMMER web server: 2018 update.

Nucleic acids research
2018-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Potter SC; Luciani A; Eddy SR; Park Y; Lopez R; Finn RD
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

EMBL-EBI, programmatically: take a REST from manual searches

2017-08 | Other
OTHER-ID:

C7900

Contributors: Burke M; Armstrong D; Carvalho-Silva D; Castro L; Cowley A; Finn R; Foix A; Katuri J; Laird M; Lee J et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Discovering and linking public omics data sets using the Omics Discovery Index.

2017-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Perez-Riverol Y; Bai M; da Veiga Leprevost F; Squizzato S; Park YM; Haug K; Carroll AJ; Spalding D; Paschall J; Wang M et al.
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The EBI search engine: EBI search as a service-making biological data accessible for all.

2017-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Park YM; Squizzato S; Buso N; Gur T; Lopez R
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Programmatic access to bioinformatics tools from EMBL-EBI update: 2017.

2017-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Chojnacki S; Cowley A; Lee J; Foix A; Lopez R
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ECCB 2016 Organization

bioinformatics
2016 | Conference abstract
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Identifying ELIXIR Core Data Resources.

2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Durinx C; McEntyre J; Appel R; Apweiler R; Barlow M; Blomberg N; Cook C; Gasteiger E; Kim JH; Lopez R et al.
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BiologicalWeb services: Integration, optimization, and reasoning

2016-12 | Other
DOI:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9983/e953294f45436c49f28d173ba078b15e4545.pdf

OTHER-ID:

c7885

Contributors: Benedikt M;  Lopez Serrano R;  Tsamoura E
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Query-seeded iterative sequence similarity searching improves selectivity 5-20-fold.

2016-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Pearson WR; Li W; Lopez R
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InterPro in 2017-beyond protein family and domain annotations.

2016-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Finn RD; Attwood TK; Babbitt PC; Bateman A; Bork P; Bridge AJ; Chang HY; Dosztányi Z; El-Gebali S; Fraser M et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ISMB 2016 Proceedings.

2016-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Baldi P; Przytycka T
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ISMB/ECCB 2015 Proceedings Papers Committee.

2015-06 | Journal article
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ISMB/ECCB 2015.

2015-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Moreau Y; Beerenwinkel N
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The EBI Search engine: providing search and retrieval functionality for biological data from EMBL-EBI.

2015-04 | Journal article
PMID:

25855807

Contributors: Squizzato S; Park YM; Buso N; Gur T; Cowley A; Li W; Uludag M; Pundir S; Cham JA; McWilliam H et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The EMBL-EBI bioinformatics web and programmatic tools framework.

2015-04 | Journal article
PMID:

25845596

Contributors: Li W; Cowley A; Uludag M; Gur T; McWilliam H; Squizzato S; Park YM; Buso N; Lopez R
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The EBI SRS server- recent developments.

2015-01 | Other
OTHER-ID:

C7467

Contributors: Zdobnov E; Lopez R; Apweiler R; Etzold T
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

UniProt: a hub for protein information.

2015-01 | Journal article
Contributors: UniProt Consortium
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Expert curation in UniProtKB: a case study on dealing with conflicting and erroneous data.

2014 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1093/database/bau016

PMID:

24622611

PMC:

PMC3950660

Contributors: Poux S; Magrane M; Arighi CN; Bridge A; O'Donovan C; Laiho K; UniProt Consortium
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Using EMBL-EBI Services via Web Interface and Programmatically via Web Services.

2014 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1002/0471250953.bi0312s48

PMID:

25501941

Contributors: Lopez R; Cowley A; Li W; McWilliam H
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Content discovery and retrieval services at the European Nucleotide Archive.

2014-11 | Journal article
PMID:

25404130

Contributors: Silvester N; Alako B; Amid C; Cerdeño-Tárraga A; Cleland I; Gibson R; Goodgame N; Ten Hoopen P; Kay S; Leinonen R et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years.

2014-11 | Journal article
PMID:

25428371

Contributors: Mitchell A; Chang HY; Daugherty L; Fraser M; Hunter S; Lopez R; McAnulla C; McMenamin C; Nuka G; Pesseat S et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ECCB 2014: The 13th European Conference on Computational Biology.

2014-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Devignes MD; Moreau Y
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB’14), September 7-10, 2014, Strasbourg, France.

2014-09 | Journal article
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ISMB 2014 Proceedings Papers Committee.

2014-06 | Journal article
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Activities at the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt).

2014-01 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1093/nar/gkt1140

PMID:

24253303

Contributors: UniProt Consortium
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Assembly information services in the European Nucleotide Archive.

2014-01 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1093/nar/gkt1082

PMID:

24214989

PMC:

PMC3965037

Contributors: Pakseresht N; Alako B; Amid C; Cerdeño-Tárraga A; Cleland I; Gibson R; Goodgame N; Gur T; Jang M; Kay S et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

InterProScan 5: Genome-scale Protein Function Classification.

2014-01 | Journal article
PMID:

24451626

Contributors: Jones P; Binns D; Chang HY; Fraser M; Li W; McAnulla C; McWilliam H; Maslen J; Mitchell A; Nuka G et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Bioinformatics: Using the Molecular Biology Data

2013-08 | Other
OTHER-ID:

C6902

Contributors: Zdobnov EM; Lopez R; Apweiler R; Etzold T
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

ISMB/ECCB 2013 Proceedings Papers Committee.

2013-07 | Journal article
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

Analysis Tool Web Services from the EMBL-EBI.

Nucleic acids research
2013-05 | Journal article
Contributors: McWilliam H; Li W; Uludag M; Squizzato S; Park YM; Buso N; Cowley AP; Lopez R
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EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
2013-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Ison J; Kalas M; Jonassen I; Bolser D; Uludag M; McWilliam H; Malone J; Lopez R; Pettifer S; Rice P
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The Enzyme Portal: a case study in applying user-centred design methods in bioinformatics.

BMC bioinformatics
2013-03 | Journal article
Contributors: de Matos P; Cham JA; Cao H; Alcántara R; Rowland F; Lopez R; Steinbeck C
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The annotation-enriched non-redundant patent sequence databases.

Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
2013-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Li W; Kondratowicz B; McWilliam H; Nauche S; Lopez R
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Facing growth in the European Nucleotide Archive.

Nucleic acids research
2012-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Cochrane G; Alako B; Amid C; Bower L; Cerdeño-Tárraga A; Cleland I; Gibson R; Goodgame N; Jang M; Kay S et al.
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Lopez R via Europe PubMed Central

IPD--the Immuno Polymorphism Database.

Nucleic acids research
2012-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Robinson J; Halliwell JA; McWilliam H; Lopez R; Marsh SG
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The EBI enzyme portal.

Nucleic acids research
2012-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Alcántara R; Onwubiko J; Cao H; Matos Pd; Cham JA; Jacobsen J; Holliday GL; Fischer JD; Rahman SA; Jassal B et al.
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