Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future

Anastasia Chasapi; Michalis Aivaliotis; Lefteris Angelis; Anastasios Chanalaris; Ioannis Iliopoulos; Ilias Kappas; Christos Karapiperis; Nikos C Kyrpides; Evangelos Pafilis; Eleftherios Panteris; Pantelis Topalis; George Tsiamis; Ioannis S Vizirianakis; Metaxia Vlassi; Vasilis J Promponas; Christos A Ouzounis

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007532

Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future

PLoS Comput Biol. 2019 Dec 19;15(12):e1007532. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007532. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Anastasia Chasapi¹, Michalis Aivaliotis^{2

3}, Lefteris Angelis⁴, Anastasios Chanalaris⁵, Ioannis Iliopoulos⁶, Ilias Kappas⁷, Christos Karapiperis⁴, Nikos C Kyrpides⁸, Evangelos Pafilis⁹, Eleftherios Panteris¹⁰, Pantelis Topalis³, George Tsiamis¹¹, Ioannis S Vizirianakis¹², Metaxia Vlassi¹³, Vasilis J Promponas¹⁴, Christos A Ouzounis¹

Affiliations

¹ Biological Computation & Process Lab, Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessalonica, Greece.
² School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalonica, Greece.
³ Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece.
⁴ School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalonica, Greece.
⁵ Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁶ Division of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
⁷ School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalonica, Greece.
⁸ Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America.
⁹ Institute of Marine Biology Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece.
¹⁰ First Psychiatric Clinic, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalonica, Greece.
¹¹ Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
¹² Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalonica, Greece.
¹³ Institute of Biosciences & Applications, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece.
¹⁴ Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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Publication types

Historical Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Computational Biology* / education
Computational Biology* / history
Computational Biology* / trends
Cyprus
Greece
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Publications / statistics & numerical data

Grant support

Parts of this exchange were supported by Elixir-GR, implemented under the Action "Reinforcement of the Research and Innovation Infrastructure," Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation" (NSRF 2014-2020 to CAO) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.