====== Nilson Mossos V. ======
| PhD. student at Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia\\ Member of [[http://bioinformatica.univalle.edu.co|Bioinformatics and BioCompution Research Group ]]|

|{{:people:nilson-mossos.jpg?100}}|Bioinformatics and Biocomputation Research Group\\ Escuela de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Computación\\ Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia\\ \\ nilson.mossos [at] correounivalle [dot] edu [dot] co\\ [[:Nilson_Mossos|homepage]]|

==== Research Interests ====

*Computational biology; *Protein structure; *Machine learning; *Data mining; *Structural alphabet 

I am interested in the problem of predicting the tertiary structure of protein from its amino acid sequence. In order to achieve that I have used structural alphabet obtained from structural elements and physicochemical properties. In these fields I am working mostly with data mining (such as  feature selection, clustering and Association Rule Mining) and probabilistic techniques (such as HMM).

 ==== Education ====

  * Currently, Doctorado En Ingeniería Con Énfasis En Ciencias De La Computación, Thesis: A framework for native protein structure prediction based on 3D structural elements with physicochemical properties.

  * 2008, Maestría En Ingeniería Con Énfasis En Ingeniería De Sistemas Y Computación, Thesis: Generalización de la estructura FP-Tree para generar reglas de asocciacion entre la estructura primaria y la secundaria de una proteína 

  * 2004, Ingeniería De Sistemas, Thesis: EPOLC-PGSQL: Explorador del proceso de optimización lógica de consultas en postgresql.