Institution: EBD
Research Groups: None assigned.
Position: Computer Engineer
Home page: https://bcb.ebd.csic.es/
Contact email: raul.ortega@ebd.csic.es
BCB Committee: No committees assigned.
BCB Community: No communities assigned.
BCB Tools: avidaR, OntoAvida, Avida: a digital evolution software platform for studying evolution
BCB Services: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) at EBD
Research topics: Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Biological Databases, Biological Ontologies, Data Repositories, Bioinformatics Software and Tools, Analysis packages (R, Python, etc.), Desktop application, Web-service, Workflow managers, Computational Techniques, Containers Computing, High-performance Computing, Parallel Computing
Biography: Raúl Ortega is a computer engineer who works as Technical Manager in the BCB lab at the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC). He manages and maintains the high-performance computing cluster, develops and deploys scientific applications with Docker and Kubernetes, and trains users to make effective use of computing resources and workflows. He is the co-author of the avidaR R package, and ontoavida ontology, and has contributed C++ modifications to Avida; he also applies full‑stack development skills to integrate pipelines, APIs, and lightweight frontends.
Publications
Ortega, R., Wulff, E., & Fortuna, M. A. (2023). Ontology for the Avida digital evolution platform. Scientific Data, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02514-3
Ortega, R., & Fortuna, M. A. (2023). avidaR: an R library to perform complex queries on an ontology-based database of digital organisms. PeerJ Computer Science, 9, e1568. Portico. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1568
Bascompte, J., García, M. B., Ortega, R., Rezende, E. L., & Pironon, S. (2019). Mutualistic interactions reshuffle the effects of climate change on plants across the tree of life. Science Advances, 5(5). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav2539
Fortuna, M. A., Ortega, R., & Bascompte, J. (2014). The Web of Life (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.1403.2575
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