08/03/2017

Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, winner of the first prize at the Datathon on Autism SSC data

Congratulations to Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán for the first prize won at the Datathon on Autism SSC data celebrated during the last month of February at the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), Harvard Medical School​ (USA).​ Alba is a predoctoral researcher at the Integrative Bioinformatics group of GRIB (IMIM-UPF) and she is doing a six months stage at DBMI of  Harvard Medical School, working on analyzing Autism data sets, integrating genetic and clinical data to model disease expression using the R statistical tool connected to a i2b2/tranSMART database.

The Datathon on Autism SSC data was addressed to all labs at DBMI or working on PI-SURE. Participants were required to create in a month the coolest use case on Autism Simons Simplex Data combining clinical and Exome variant data using the BD2K PIC-SURE API and jupyter notebooks.  

Alba created an R package in order to help researchers to analyse both clinical and molecular data included in the Simons Simple Collection, a permanent repository of genetic samples from 2,600 simplex families, each of which has one child affected with an autism spectrum disorder, and unaffected parents and siblings, winning the first price!