Research Contract · eprObes (Horizon Europe)
CINN–CSIC · Grant agreement 101080219
Preventing lifetime obesity through early risk-factor identification, prognosis and intervention, within a European consortium.
Pelayo González
de Lena Rodríguez
PhD candidate, computational biologist, plant epigenomics researcher
Experience
PhD Researcher · FPI Severo Ochoa Fellow
University of Oviedo · Plant Physiology Area, Dept. of Organisms and Systems Biology
Thesis on histone PTMs in Arabidopsis thaliana: EpiProfile-PLANTS, rosette ontogeny and PRIDE reanalyses.
Research Stay · Computational Cancer Genomics
CNIO · Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid
NGS transcriptomics and lncRNA pipelines for cancer genomics.
Instructor · Bioinformatics and Programming
IAAP · University of Oviedo · Oviedo City Council · FORMACAL · ARTEAULA
Linux, Python and R/Bioconductor for omics, from setup to real projects.
Computational Biologist
GeoAI Analytics
GIS analysis and drone flights with thermographic video; computer vision and machine learning on geospatial data.
Bioinformatician
Vivia Biotech · Tres Cantos, Madrid
Bioinformatic analysis of ex vivo drug screening in leukaemia and other haematological malignancies.
Bioinformatician · External Collaboration
Institute of Cellular and Molecular Studies (ICM) · Atrys Health, Lugo
Microarray and NGS analysis pipelines; contributed to MeeApp, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing application.
Research Trainee · Molecular Oncology Unit
CIEMAT, Madrid
Education
PhD in Biology (in progress)
University of Oviedo · FPI PRE2019-091395 · defence expected autumn 2026
MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Carlos III Health Institute
MSc in Biomolecules and Cell Dynamics
Autonomous University of Madrid
BSc + MSc in Biology (5-year degree)
University of Oviedo · Cell and Molecular Biology
Research & Projects
EpiProfile-PLANTS
MATLAB suite that extends EpiProfile 2.0 to plant histone proteomics. It brings curated peptide catalogues for three plant and algal species, a Snakemake + Docker workflow and a dashboard to read the output.
K-CHOPORE
Eight-stage Snakemake + Docker workflow for Oxford Nanopore direct RNA-seq, orchestrating 15 open-source tools from a single configuration file: basecalling, isoform analysis, m6A detection and differential expression, applied to Arabidopsis.
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Arabidopsis Rosette Ontogeny Atlas
Histone PTMs across four stages of rosette development, with the quality control done before the statistics.
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Public PRIDE reanalyses
Public proteomics datasets reprocessed end to end with the same pipeline.
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Cancer genomics & transcriptomics
RNA-seq, differential expression and multi-omics approaches to oncology research at CNIO.
Publications
RNA Sequencing Platforms and Bioinformatics Tools
Book chapter · Concepts and Strategies in Plant Sciences · Springer Nature Singapore · pp. 31–65
Clusterization in head and neck squamous carcinomas based on lncRNA expression: molecular and clinical correlates
Journal article · Clinical Epigenetics
Analysis of histone post-translational modifications in Arabidopsis thaliana
Book chapter · Plant Proteomics: Methods and Protocols · Methods in Molecular Biology (Springer, 2026)
EpiProfile-PLANTS
Software · extension of EpiProfile 2.0 for plant histone proteomics · MATLAB · GPL-3.0
Manuscripts
Preprints and manuscripts under review, with their DOI.
Reports
Technical reports and audits from the pipelines: what was measured, and what held up.
Teaching & Tutorials
Linux for scientists
Shell, WSL2 and reproducible environments for daily research work. University of Oviedo and Oviedo City Council, 2019 to 2025.
R and Bioconductor for omics
From tidyverse basics to RNA-seq analysis and publication-ready figures. University of Oviedo, 2019 to 2025.
Python for bioinformatics
Core patterns and realistic omics examples. 20 h as sole instructor at the Asturian Institute of Public Administration (2025).
MSc thesis supervision
Open University of Catalonia
Supervised an MSc thesis building a polygenic risk score pipeline for human complex diseases.
Invited lecturer · Basic Course on Cancer Genomics
CIEMAT and CIBERONC · every edition since the first
Claude Code and AI agents
How to put AI agents to work on real analyses, from the setup to the pipeline.
What I follow
Tools, standards and people I read in bioinformatics and AI.
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Awesome AI Meets Biology
A list of LLMs and agents for biomedicine and bioinformatics, kept up to date.
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Model Context Protocol
The open standard that connects AI agents to scientific tools and data.
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BioMCP
MCP server that gives agents access to PubMed, ClinicalTrials and genomic databases.
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Voices I follow
Tommy Tang, Lior Pachter and Xiaole Shirley Liu: single-cell, RNA-seq and cancer epigenomics.
Papers and posts I flag on LinkedIn, one by one.
Skills & Tech Stack
RPythonLinuxMATLABSnakemakeDockerGitBioconductorNanoporeClaude Code / MCP
Languages
Spanish · native
Italian · C1
English · C1 reading, B2 otherwise
Catalan · B1 listening, A2 otherwise
GitHub Repositories
The software behind the thesis and the pipelines around it.
Beyond the Lab
Striker · CF Laviana
I play every week, as a striker for CF Laviana.
Contact & Links
I work at the Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, University of Oviedo. Write to me about plant chromatin, histone PTM proteomics, cancer bioinformatics or reproducible pipelines.