A new startup has been created with the participation of Guillem Ylla, PhD student at Prof Xavier Bellés lab, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This is a joint collaboration with another PhD student of  a PRBB center, Alba Gutierrez (Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB, IMIM-UPF), Juan Ramón González, group leader of the Bioinformatic Unit at CREAL, and a informatics engineer, Ernest Bofill.

The newborn startup BioCloud aims to provide cloud solutions for bioinformatic challenges such as the lack of computational power, lack of reproducibility of data analysis or data sharing difficulties among others. The startup also provides teaching tools for university courses and workshops when high computational power or data storage is needed. Currently Biocloud has started by providing support at Master of Omic Data Analysis (UVIc) and Master of Bioinformatics (UAB).

More information: www.biocloudservices.com