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Giovanna Maria Ventola

Giovanna Maria Ventola


e-mail: giovannaventola3es9@gmail.com

 

Degree in: Biology cum laude (Biosanitary curriculum), Univeristy of Sannio (2013).

Ph.D in: Bioinformatics, Univeristy of Sannio (2016). 


Expertise and research activity: Computational Method developed for NGS data analysis. Algorithm for identification of long and small non-coding RNA.

 

 

 

Publications:

  • Salvati A, Gigantino V, Nassa G, Mirici Cappa V, Ventola GM, Cracas DGC, Mastrocinque R, Rizzo F, Tarallo R, Weisz A, Giurato G. Global View of Candidate Therapeutic Target Genes in Hormone-Responsive Breast Cancer. Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Jun 6;21(11):4068. doi: 10.3390/ijms21114068. PMID: 32517194; PMCID: PMC7312026.
  • Ventola GM, Noviello TM, D'Aniello S, Spagnuolo A, Ceccarelli M, Cerulo L. Identification of long non-coding transcripts with feature selection: a comparative study. BMC Bioinformatics. 2017 Mar 23;18(1):187. doi:10.1186/s12859-017-1594-z. PubMed PMID: 28335739; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC5364679.
  • Noviello, T. M., Di Liddo, A., Ventola GM., Spagnuolo, A., D'Aniello, S., Ceccarelli, M., Cerulo, L. (2018). Detection of long non-coding RNA homology, a comparative study on alignment and alignment-free metrics. BMC bioinformatics, 19(1), 407.

Published conference abstracts:

  • Noviello TMR, Di Liddo A, Ventola GM, D'Aniello S, Spagnuolo A, Ceccarelli M and Cerulo L. Detecting long non-coding RNA orthology with n-gram similarity metrics. CIBB2017: Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. 7-9 September, University of Cagliari, 2017.
  • Noviello TMR, Ventola GM, D’Aniello S, Spagnuolo A, Ceccarelli M and Cerulo L. Reverse Engineering methods to support the identification of long non coding RNA functions. 13th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society, BITS, University of Salerno, 15-17, June, Fisciano, 2016.
  • Ventola GM, Rehman ZU, Ceccarelli M and Cerulo L. A pipeline to identify long non-coding RNA in Zebrafish. 9th Edition BBCC2014, Bioinformatica e Biologia Computazionale in Campania, 28, November, Avellino, Italy, 2014.
  • Ventola GM, Colaprico A, D’Angelo F, Colantuoni V, Viglietto G, Cerulo L, Ceccarelli M. An Approach to Identify miRNA Associated with Cancer Altered Pathways. ICIAP 2013 International Workshops, 9-13 September, Napoli, 2013, Italy. (LNCS, volume 8158).