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The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence applied to Bioinformatics (LAI2B) focuses on developing and applying artificial intelligence methods to deal with hard to solve problems in several areas. Our main application has been in bioinformatics during the last years, treating with the analysis of gene expression data, the 3D protein structure prediction problem, and phylogenetic inference. We strongly believe that collaboration with an interdisciplinary team is a must in this area. We have collaborated with researchers to analyse datasets related to cancer, the wine industry, and healthcare analysis, among others.
In short, we aim at working closely with biologists and biotechnologist to understand the problems and to produce meaningful results by creating advanced algorithms using artificial intelligence techniques. The goal is to uncover the information hidden in the datasets.
We believe that frontiers do not exist for science, so we promote collaboration at a national and international level. Currently, we collaborate with researchers from Brasil, France, Ecuador, and Australia. In Chile, we collaborate with researchers from Universidad Austral, Universidad Católica del Maule, and other university departments.
If you like our work, we invite you to write to us, and we would be happy to discuss it. Just email any of the faculty members.
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From the 25th-29th of September 2023 our partner, the SBCB Laboratory, will organize the 4th Escola Gaucha de Bioinformática, that will take place at Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul.
On May 2023 the PhD students visited for two weeks the SBCB Laboratory and work with the colleagues there on the application of pipelines for the analysis of gene expression Data. This visit happened as part of the activities of the AICABI project.
We congratulate Dr Mario Inostroza-Ponta for the recent adjudication of the Fondecyt Project "A novel multiobjective strategy to identify significant groups of genes using high throughput data and biological knowledge" in the 2023 grant.
From the 25th-27th of July we participated on the Second Workshop AICABI, UFRGS, Brazil. Researchers and PhD students attended this event as part of the activities of the STIC-AMSUD Research Project.
On the 14th of October we will held an online workshop as part of the activities of the AICABI project. More information coming soon.
We are happy to announce that we got a STIC-AMSUD grant to help the collaboration with our colleagues in Brazil and France for two years. The project entitled "AICaBI: Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Biomarkes Identification", will be focussed on the analysis of gene expression cancer data.
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LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Contreras, Á., Villalobos‐Cid, M., Valdés, C., Villarroel, C. A., Castro, F., Farías, I., & Lorca, G. (2025). Obtaining new brewing yeasts using regional Chilean wine yeasts through an adaptive evolution program. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, 1599904. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1599904
Chourio-Acevedo, L., Madrid-Muñoz, G., Kri-Amar, F., Román-Cortés, A., Joglar-Campos, C., & Villalobos-Cid, M. (2025). Assessing academic workload in computing engineering programs: A preliminary study. In Revista Digital Educación En Ingeniería (Vol. 20, p. 1-13). https://doi.org/10.26507/rei.v20n39.1297
Tona Peres, I., da Cunha Braga, L., & dos Santos Lourenço Bastos, L., & Villalobos-Cid, M. (2025) Efficiency analysis of healthcare systems in Latin American and Caribbean countries: An application based on data envelopment analysis. In Value in Health Regional Issues (Vol. 46, p. 101075). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vhri.2024.101075