Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, PhD

Software Engineer

Bio

Alejandra is a Software Engineer in the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), working with the ISA Data Sharing infrastructure team (http://www.isa-tools.org).

 Before joining OeRC, Alejandra was Senior Research Associate in Computational and Systems Medicine at University College London (UCL). At UCL, she was previously at the Department of Computer Science, working on knowledge management for cancer research data.

She was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University Belfast, UK and a Licentiateship (5-year degree with final research project) from Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.

Recent publications

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• Reza M. Salek, Kenneth Haug, Pablo Conesa, Janna Hastings, Mark Williams, Tejasvi Mahendraker, Eamonn Maguire, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone and Christoph Steinbeck  The MetaboLights repository: curation challenges in metabolomics. Database 2013. (available online)
• Eamonn Maguire, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Patricia L. Whetzel, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Philippe Rocca-Serra
  OntoMaton: a Bioportal powered ontology widget for Google Spreadsheets 
  Bioinformatics 2013.  (available online)
• Kenneth Haug, Reza M. Salek, Pablo Conesa, Janna Hastings, Paula de Matos, Mark Rijnbeek, Tejasvi Mahendraker, Mark Williams, Steffen Neumann, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Eamonn Maguire, Alejandra González-Beltrán, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Jules L. Griffin, Christoph Steinbeck.
  MetaboLights: An open-access general-purpose repository for Metabolomics studies and associated meta-data 
  Nucleic Acids Research (2013). (available online)
• Alejandra González-Beltrán, Eamonn Maguire, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone. The open source ISA software suite and its international user community: knowledge management of experimental data EMBnet.journal, Bioinformatics in Action, NETTAB 2012. (available online)
• Alejandra González-Beltrán, May Yong, Gairin Dancey, Richard Begent
  Guidelines for Information About Therapy Experiments: A proposal on best practice for recording experimental data on cancer therapy
  BMC Research Notes
• Alejandra González-Beltrán, Ben Tagger, Anthony Finkelstein
  Federated Ontology-based Queries over Cancer Data
  BMC Bioinformatics Volume 13 Supplement 1, Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2010.
• May Yee Yong, Alejandra González-Beltrán, Richard Begent
  Establishing a knowledge trail from molecular experiments to clinical trials
  New Biotechnology (2011)
• Carsten Kettner, Dawn Field, Susanna Sansone, Chris Taylor, Jan Aerts, Nigel Binns, Andrew Black, Cedrik M. Britten, Ario de Marco, Jennifer Fostel, Pascale Gaudet, Alejandra González-Beltrán, Nigel Hardy, Jan Hellmans, Hennin Hermjakob, Nick Juty, Jim Leebens-Mack, Eamonn Maguire, Steffen Neumann, Sandra Orchard, Helen Parkinson, William Piel, Shoba Ranganathan, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Annapaola Santarsiero, David Shotton, Peter Sterk, Andreas Untergasser, Patricia L. Whetzel 
  Meeting Report from the Second “Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations” (MIBBI) workshop
  Standards in Genomic Sciences, Vol 3, No 3 (2010)
• James P. McCusker, Joshua A. Phillips, Alejandra González-Beltrán, Anthony Finkelstein, Michael Krauthammer 
  “Semantic web data warehousing for caGrid”
  BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 10, Supp 10, 2009.
• Alejandra González-Beltrán, Peter Milligan, Paul Sage
  “Range queries over skip tree graphs” 
  Journal of Computer Communications, Volume 31 Issue 2, pp 358-374, February 2008. 
  Special Issue: Foundation of Peer-to-Peer Computing.

Recent talks

Available on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/agbeltran/

Recent Conferences and Meetings

• Biocuration, 2013, Cambridge, UK.
• Beyond the PDF 2, 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• NETTAB 2012, Como, Italy.