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Antonio Muñoz Mérida finished its PhD in Advanced biotechnology and bioinformatics in 2013/02/21 at University of Malaga. Since then, he has been working as principal researcher at CIBIO-InBIO belonging to the University of Porto where he also teaches in three different MsC programs. He has tutorized 6 MsC students and published more than 40 scientific papers of high impact. His expertise is in Bioinformatics and Computational biology, and he develop his research helping several groups with the data analysis regarding Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Population genomics, GWAS, Software development, and all related to data from NGS in general.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Antonio Muñoz Mérida

Citation names

  • Mérida, Antonio
  • Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
221F-7E4F-5870
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7173-2741

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Bioinformatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Greek Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/02/21
Concluded
Advanced biotechnology and bioinformatics (Doutoramento)
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
"Massive data analysis in genomic projects" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Cum laude
2007
Concluded
Advanced biotechnology and bioinformatics (Mestrado)
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
"SemiRNA: searching for miRNAs that control the infection in plants" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
10
2005/06/23
Concluded
Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
"BIOLOGY" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
8
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2014/12/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2006/06/01 - 2013/08/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/10/15 - 2022/10/14 Applying elasmobranch immunogenetics to fisheries management and the study of vertebrate adaptive immunity
PTDC/ASP-PES/28053/2017
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDB/50027/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDP/50027/2020
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30 HDT-Coffee - Map da resistencia no hibrido de Timor
PTDC/ASP-PLA/32429/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/01/01 - 2021/12/31 E-Imuno - Applying elasmobranch immunogenetics to fisheries management and the study of vertebrate adaptive immunity
028053-02/SAICT/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 HDT-Coffee - Unraveling Timor hybrid resistance to coffee rust by genomic approaches
PTDC/ASP-PLA/32429/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/26 - 2021/07/25 Montagem de novo de fragmentos obtidos por sequenciação de nova geração sem quimeras: anotação melhorada, perfis de expressão genetica e reconstrução de haplótipos
PTDC/BIA-EVL/29115/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/26 - 2021/07/25 Colours hidden in the forest: evolutionary genomics of colour patterns in Neotropical frogs
PTDC/BIA-EVL/28621/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Ongoing
2016/01/01 - 2020/12/31 ARCHAIC - The archaeogenetics of Iberian cattle: investigating their origins, evolution and improvement
ARCHAIC-P2020-PTDC/CVT-LIV/2827/2014
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/01 - 2020/12 How and why species multiply? Disentangling the evolution of the mantellid frogs of Madagascar to unveil the determinants of species diversification
PTDC/BIA-EVL/31254/2017
PTDC/BIA-EVL/31254/2017
Researcher
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
N/A
Ongoing
2015/09/01 - 2020/08/31 ENVMETAGEN - Capacity Building at InBIO for Research and Innovation Using Environmental Metagenomics
ENVMETAGEN-H2020-WIDESPREAD-2014-2
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2019/03/01 The archaeogenetics of Iberian cattle: investigating their origins, evolution and improvement
PTDC/CVT-LIV/2827/2014
Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática (INB) 4a Etapa. GNV-5. Bioinformática Integrada
INB-GNV5-IV
Researcher
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Concluded
2011/06/01 - 2012/03/31 RED DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE REACCIONES ADVERSAS A ALERGENOS Y FÁRMACOS (RIRAAF)
RD07/0064/0000
Researcher
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Gobierno de España
Concluded
2010/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática (INB) 3a Etapa. GNV-5. Bioinformática Integrada
INB-GNV5-III
Researcher
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Generation Of Genomic Tools In Olive And Application To The Analysis Of Fruit And Oil Quality And Agronomical Traits (Oleagen)
OLEAGEN
Researcher
Concluded
2007/01/01 - 2009/12/31 Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática (INB) 2da Etapa. GNV-5. Bioinformática Integrada
GNV5
Researcher
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Genoma España
Concluded
2006/06/01 - 2009/12/31 IDENTIFICATION OF GENES AND MOLECULES ASSOCIATED TO TOMATO FRUIT QUALITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE SEQUENCING OF EUCHROMATIC REGIONS OF CHR 9. A GENOMIC APPROACH (ESP-SOL)
Researcher
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Genoma España
Concluded
2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31 BIOTECNOLOGÍA Y GENÉTICA MEDIOAMBIENTAL DE SISTEMAS AGRÍCOLAS
CVI264-II
Researcher
Junta de Andalucía
Concluded
2006/01/01 - 2006/12/31 BIOTECNOLOGÍA Y GENÉTICA MEDIOAMBIENTAL DE SISTEMAS AGRÍCOLAS
CVI264
Researcher
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Junta de Andalucía
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Ureña, I; Guimarães, S; Davis, SJM; Detry, C; Kilinç, GM; Da Fonseca, R; Dussex, N; et al. "An Archaeogenetics Study of Cattle Bones from Seventeenth Century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal". 2022.
    10.5913/archbio04.08
Conference paper
  1. Amil-Ruiz, F.; Encinas-Villarejo, S.; Muñoz-Blanco, J.; Caballero, J.L.; De Los Santos, B.; Romero, F.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; et al. "Distinctive transcriptome response of two strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) cultivars to Colletotrichum acutatum infection". Paper presented in XXVIIIth IHC - IS on Genomics and Genetic, Lisbon, 2012.
    Published • 10.17660/actahortic.2012.929.5
  2. Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Ríos, J.; Benzekri, H.; Trelles, O.. "Statistical significance for NGS reads similarities". Paper presented in JBI 2010: Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine, Malaga, 2010.
    10.1007/978-3-642-28062-7_1
Conference poster
  1. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "Metagenomics of composting processes based on plant waste on an industrial scale: relevant aspects of fungal biodiversity". Paper presented in TIBE 2020, 2020.
  2. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "New enzymes of Gulosibacter molinativorax ON4T involved into thiocarbamate herbicide degradation pathway". Paper presented in MicroBiotec19, 2019.
  3. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "Identification of the biocatalysts involved in molinate breakdown by Gulosibacter molinativorax ON4T". Paper presented in The second edition of the International Meeting on New Strategies in Bioremediation Processes (BioRemid2019), 2019.
  4. Lopes, Ana; Hugo Froufe; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Joana Figueiredo; Cristina Barroso; Diogo Pinho; Conceição Egas; Nunes, Olga C.. "From genomic and transcriptomic data to the identification of the putative enzymes involved in molinate degradation pathway in Gulosibacter molinativorax ON4T". Paper presented in MicroBiotec17, 2017.
  5. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "The good, the bad and the ugly: insights from Odonata Barcoding". Paper presented in 2017 International Barcode of Life Conference, 2017.
  6. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "Large-scale barcoding of Portuguese moths: accelerating species inventories while revealing exotic species, sexual dimorphism and cryptic diversity". Paper presented in 2017 International Barcode of Life Conference, 2017.
  7. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "INBIO BARCODING INITIATIVE: BUILDING A REFERENCE DATABASE FOR FRESHWATER INSECTS USING NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING". Paper presented in DNAqua-Net meeting, 2017.
  8. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "Using a multidisciplinary approach to study the adaptive radiation of the mantellid frogs of Madagascar". Paper presented in TIBE 2016, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Inês Freitas; Guillermo Velo-Antón; Susana Lopes; Antonio Muñoz-Merida; Fernando Martínez-Freiría. "Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the three Iberian vipers, Vipera aspis, V. Latastei and V. seoanei by Illumina MiSeq sequencing". Molecular Biology Reports (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-024-09263-5.
    10.1007/s11033-024-09263-5
  2. Ferreira, Sónia; Corley, Martin; Nunes, João; Rosete, Jorge; Vasconcelos, Sasha; Mata, Vanessa; Veríssimo, Joana; et al. "The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: DNA barcodes of Portuguese moths". Biodiversity Data Journal 12 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/bdj.12.e117169.
    10.3897/bdj.12.e117169
  3. Piccoli, Costanza; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Crottini, Angelica. "PARSID: a Python script for automatic analysis of local BLAST results for a rapid molecular taxonomic identification". BMC Research Notes 17 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-024-06686-y.
    10.1186/s13104-024-06686-y
  4. Veríssimo, Ana; Castro, L Filipe C; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Almeida, Tereza; Gaigher, Arnaud; Neves, Fabiana; Flajnik, Martin F; Ohta, Yuko. "An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution". Molecular Biology and Evolution 40 12 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad262.
    10.1093/molbev/msad262
  5. Aina Garcia-Raventós; Antonio Muñoz-Mérida; Oriol Lapiedra; Mar Unzeta; Mariona Ferrandiz-Rovira; Daniel Sol. "Identification of sex-linked SNP markers in wild populations of monomorphic birds". Molecular Ecology Resources (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13862.
    10.1111/1755-0998.13862
  6. Michael J. Jowers; Utpal Smart; Santiago Sánchez-Ramírez; John C. Murphy; Aarón Gómez; Renan J. Bosque; Goutam C. Sarker; et al. "Unveiling underestimated species diversity within the Central American Coralsnake, a medically important complex of venomous taxa". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37734-5.
    10.1038/s41598-023-37734-5
  7. Gaigher, A; Rota, A; Neves, F; Muñoz Mérida, A; Blasco Aróstegui, J; Almeida, T; Veríssimo, A. "Extensive MHC class IIß diversity across multiple loci in the small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)". Scientific Reports (2023):
    10.1038/s41598-023-30876-6
  8. Antonio Muñoz Merida. "In silico prediction of the enzymes involved in the degradation of the herbicide molinate by Gulosibacter molinativorax ON4T". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18732-5.
    10.1038/s41598-022-18732-5
  9. "De Novo Assembly of the Dirofilaria immitis Genome by Long-Read Nanopore-Based Sequencing Technology on an Adult Worm from a Canine Cardiopulmonary Dirofilariosis Case". Animals 12 11 (2022): 1342-1342. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12111342.
    10.3390/ani12111342
  10. Stephen J. Sabatino; Paulo Pereira; Miguel Carneiro; Jolita Dilyte; John Patrick Archer; Antonio Munoz; Francesco Nonnis-Marzano; Antonio Murias. "The genetics of adaptation in freshwater Eurasian shad ( Alosa )". Ecology and Evolution (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8908.
    10.1002/ece3.8908
  11. Blaschikoff, Ludmilla; Daza-Perea, Arantxa; Requicha, João; Detry, Cleia; Rasteiro, Rita; Guimarães, Sílvia; Ureña, Irene; et al. "A multidisciplinary study of Iberian Chalcolithic dogs". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 42 (2022): 103338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103338.
    10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103338
  12. Alves, Filipe; Martins, Filipa M. S.; Areias, Miguel; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "Automating microsatellite screening and primer design from multi-individual libraries using Micro-Primers". Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04275-8.
    10.1038/s41598-021-04275-8
  13. Neves, F; Munoz Merida, A; Machado, AM; Almeida, T; Gaigher, A; Esteves, PJ; Castro, LFC; Verissimo, A. "Uncovering a 500 million year old history and evidence of pseudogenization for TLR15". FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY (2022):
    10.3389/fimmu.2022.1020601
  14. Sara Freitas; Malgorzata A. Gazda; Miguel Â. Rebelo; Antonio J. Muñoz-Pajares; Carlos Vila-Viçosa; Antonio Muñoz-Mérida; Luís M. Gonçalves; et al. "Pervasive hybridization with local wild relatives in Western European grapevine varieties". Science Advances 7 47 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi8584.
    10.1126/sciadv.abi8584
  15. Tereza Almeida; Yuko Ohta; Arnaud Gaigher; Antonio Muñoz-Mérida; Fabiana Neves; L. Filipe C. Castro; André M. Machado; et al. "A Highly Complex, MHC-Linked, 350 Million-Year-Old Shark Nonclassical Class I Lineage". The Journal of Immunology (2021): ji2000851-ji2000851. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.2000851.
    10.4049/jimmunol.2000851
  16. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "The enigmatic biogeography of Tobago's marooned relics: The case study of a fossorial snake (Squamata, Dipsadidae)". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59 6 (2021): 1382-1389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12509.
    10.1111/jzs.12509
  17. Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio. "Draft Genome Sequence of a Leptospira kirschneri Serovar Mozdok Type 2 Strain Isolated from a Horse in Portugal". Microbiology Resource Announcements 10 28 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mra.00217-21.
    10.1128/mra.00217-21
  18. André M. Machado; Antonio Muñoz-Merida; Elza Fonseca; Ana Veríssimo; Rui Pinto; Mónica Felício; Rute R. da Fonseca; Elsa Froufe; L. Filipe C. Castro. "Liver transcriptome resources of four commercially exploited teleost species". Scientific Data (2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0565-9.
    10.1038/s41597-020-0565-9
  19. Serra, Cláudia R.; Matas, Isabel M.; Albuquerque, Pedro; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Oliva Teles, Aires; Enes, Paula; Tavares, Fernando. "High-Quality Draft Genome Sequences of Marine Fish Gut Bacillus sp. Strains ABP1 and ABP2 with Nonstarch Polysaccharide-Hydrolytic Potential". Microbiology Resource Announcements 9 15 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mra.00077-20.
    10.1128/mra.00077-20
  20. Estrella González, MJ; Suárez Estrella, F; Jurado, MM; López, MJ; López González, JA; Siles Castellano, AB; Muñoz Mérida, A; Moreno, J. "Uncovering new indicators to predict stability, maturity and biodiversity of compost on an industrial scale". Bioresource Technology (2020):
    10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123557
  21. Murphy, JC; Munoz Merida, A; Auguste, RJ; Lasso Alcala, O; Rivas, GA; Jowers, MJ. "Evidence for cryptic diversity in the Neotropical water snake, Helicops angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Dipsadidae, Hydropsini), with comments on its ecology, facultative reproductive mode, and conservation". AMPHIBIAN & REPTILE CONSERVATION (2020):
  22. Almeida, T; Gaigher, A; Munoz Merida, A; Neves, F; Castro, LFC; Flajnik, MF; Ohta, Y; Esteves, PJ; Verissimo, A. "Cartilaginous fish class II genes reveal unprecedented old allelic lineages and confirm the late evolutionary emergence of DM". MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY (2020):
    10.1016/j.molimm.2020.10.003
  23. Manuzzi, A; Zane, L; Munoz Merida, A; Griffiths, AM; Verissimo, A. "Population genomics and phylogeography of a benthic coastal shark (Scyliorhinus canicula) using 2b-RAD single nucleotide polymorphisms". BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY (2019):
    10.1093/biolinnean/bly185
  24. Belaj, A.; de la Rosa, R.; Lorite, I.J.; Mariotti, R.; Cultrera, N.G.M.; Beuzón, C.R.; González-Plaza, J.J.; et al. "Usefulness of a new large set of high throughput est-snp markers as a tool for olive germplasm collection management". Frontiers in Plant Science 9 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85054472567&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fpls.2018.01320
  25. Pedro Humberto Castro; Grmay H. Lilay; Antonio Muñoz-Mérida; Jan K. Schjoerring; Herlânder Azevedo; Ana G. L. Assunção. "Phylogenetic analysis of F-bZIP transcription factors indicates conservation of the zinc deficiency response across land plants". Scientific Reports (2017):
    10.1038/s41598-017-03903-6
  26. Ricardo J. Lopes; Muñoz-Mérida, Antonio; Miguel Carneiro. "Unleashing the Potential of Public Genomic Resources to Find Parasite Genetic Data.". Trends in parasitology (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28716403.
    10.1016/j.pt.2017.06.006
  27. Casimiro-Soriguer, C.S.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Pérez-Pulido, A.J.. "Sma3s: A universal tool for easy functional annotation of proteomes and transcriptomes". Proteomics 17 12 (2017): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85020941639&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/pmic.201700071
  28. Nourisson, C.; Muñoz-Merida, A.; Carneiro, M.; Sequeira, F.. "De novo transcriptome assembly and polymorphism detection in two highly divergent evolutionary units of Bosca's newt (Lissotriton boscai) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula". Molecular Ecology Resources 17 3 (2017): 546-549. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84994477231&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/1755-0998.12563
  29. Sablok G; Pérez-Pulido AJ; Do T; Seong TY; Casimiro-Soriguer CS; La Porta N; Ralph PJ; et al. "PlantFuncSSR: Integrating First and Next Generation Transcriptomics for Mining of SSR-Functional Domains Markers.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27446111.
    10.3389/fpls.2016.00878
  30. Amil-Ruiz, F.; Garrido-Gala, J.; Gadea, J.; Blanco-Portales, R.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Trelles, O.; De Los Santos, B.; et al. "Partial activation of SA- and JA-defensive pathways in strawberry upon colletotrichum acutatum interaction". Frontiers in Plant Science 7 2016JULY (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84978680247&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fpls.2016.01036
  31. González-Plaza, J.J.; Ortiz-Martín, I.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; García-López, C.; Sánchez-Sevilla, J.F.; Luque, F.; Trelles, O.; et al. "Transcriptomic analysis using olive varieties and breeding progenies identifies candidate genes involved in plant architecture". Frontiers in Plant Science 7 MAR2016 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84960096924&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3389/fpls.2016.00240
  32. Azevedo, H.; Azinheiro, S.G.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Castro, P.H.; Huettel, B.; Aarts, M.M.G.; Assunção, A.G.L.. "Transcriptomic profiling of Arabidopsis gene expression in response to varying micronutrient zinc supply". Genomics Data 7 (2016): 256-258. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84957081977&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.gdata.2016.01.021
  33. De La O Leyva-Pérez, M.; Valverde-Corredor, A.; Valderrama, R.; Jiménez-Ruiz, J.; Muñoz-Merida, A.; Trelles, O.; Barroso, J.B.; Mercado-Blanco, J.; Luque, F.. "Early and delayed long-term transcriptional changes and short-term transient responses during cold acclimation in olive leaves". DNA Research 22 1 (2015): 1-11. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84938948139&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/dnares/dsu033
  34. García-López, M.C.; Vidoy, I.; Jiménez-Ruiz, J.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Fernández-Ocaña, A.; de la Rosa, R.; Barroso, J.B.; et al. "Genetic changes involved in the juvenile-to-adult transition in the shoot apex of Olea europaea L. occur years before the first flowering". Tree Genetics and Genomes 10 3 (2014): 585-603. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84901455412&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11295-014-0706-4
  35. Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Viguera, E.; Claros, M.G.; Trelles, O.; Pérez-Pulido, A.J.. "Sma3s: A three-step modular annotator for large sequence datasets". DNA Research 21 4 (2014): 341-353. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84906981130&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/dnares/dsu001
  36. De la Rosa, R.; Belaj, A.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Trelles, O.; Ortíz-Martín, I.; González-Plaza, J.J.; Valpuesta, V.; Beuzón, C.R.. "Development of EST-derived SSR markers with long-core repeat in olive and their use for paternity testing". Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 138 4 (2013): 290-296. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880845127&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  37. Muñoz-Mérida, A.; González-Plaza, J.J.; Cañada, A.; Blanco, A.M.; Del Carmen García-López, M.; Rodríguez, J.M.; Pedrola, L.; et al. "De novo assembly and functional annotation of the olive (Olea europaea) transcriptome". DNA Research 20 1 (2013): 93-108. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874483118&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/dnares/dss036
  38. Lima-Silva, V.; Rosado, A.; Amorim-Silva, V.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Pons, C.; Bombarely, A.; Trelles, O.; et al. "Genetic and genome-wide transcriptomic analyses identify co-regulation of oxidative response and hormone transcript abundance with vitamin C content in tomato fruit". BMC Genomics 13 1 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84860802395&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1471-2164-13-187
  39. Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Perkins, J.R.; Viguera, E.; Thode, G.; Bejarano, E.R.; Pérez-Pulido, A.J.. "Semirna: Searching for plant miRNAs using target sequences". OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology 16 4 (2012): 168-177. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859538237&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1089/omi.2011.0115
  40. Pettifer S; Ison J; Kalas M; Thorne D; McDermott P; Jonassen I; Liaquat A; et al. "The EMBRACE web service collection.". (2010): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20462862.
    10.1093/nar/gkq297
  41. Ramírez, S.; Muñoz-Mérida, A.; Karlsson, J.; García, M.; Pérez-Pulido, A.J.; Gonzalo Claros, M.; Trelles, O.. "MOWServ: A web client for integration of bioinformatic resources". Nucleic Acids Research 38 SUPPL. 2 (2010): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77954305907&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/nar/gkq497
  42. Martin-Requena, V.; Muñoz-Merida, A.; Claros, M.G.; Trelles, O.. "PreP+07: Improvements of a user friendly tool to preprocess and analyse microarray data". BMC Bioinformatics 10 (2009): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-62849123277&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1186/1471-2105-10-16
Preprint
  1. Aina Garcia-Raventós; Antonio Muñoz-Merida; Oriol Lapiedra; Mar Unzeta; Mariona Ferrandiz-Rovira; Daniel Sol. "Identification of sex-linked SNP markers in wild populations of monomorphic birds". 2023. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.167533573.32752284/v1.
    10.22541/au.167533573.32752284/v1
  2. Cabezas, MP; Fonseca, NA; Muñoz-Mérida, A. "MIMt – A curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification". 2023. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-017-3P9.
    10.1101/2023.12.15.571851

Other

Other output
  1. Evidence of post-domestication hybridization and adaptive introgression in Western European grapevine varieties. 2021. S. Freitas; M.A. Gazda; M. Rebelo; A.J. Muñoz-Pajares; C. Vila-Viçosa; A. Muñoz-Mérida; L.M. Gonçalves; et al. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.03.432021.
    10.1101/2021.03.03.432021
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/10/15 - 2025/01/23 Unraveling the taxonomic diversity and evolutionary patterns of a pseudo-cryptic species complex in the sino-himalayan region
Supervisor
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2023/10/15 - 2025/01/22 FungITS: a new non-redundant database for species-level identification of Fungi mostly based on curated ITS sequences
Supervisor of Joaquina María García Martín
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2020/10/01 - 2021/12/12 Identificación de mutaciones relacionadas con la diabetes monogénica por panel de secuenciación en sujetos con fenotipo clínico positivo pero diagnostico negativo para los marcadores HNF1A, HNF1B, HNF4A y GCK (MODY-X)
Supervisor
Bioinformatics (Master)
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2019/10/01 - 2021/01/18 MIMt – A new 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy in species-level identification
Supervisor of Maria del Pilar Cabezas Rodriguez
Máster en Análisis Bioinformático Avanzado (Master)
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2018/03/01 - 2019/12/14 Towards a novel pipeline for microsatellite screening in population genomics
Supervisor
Mestrado em Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional (Master)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/12/12 MÉTODO REVISADO DE PREDICCIÓN DE GENES BASADO EN ANOTACIÓN
Supervisor
Máster de Analisis Bioinformático Avanzado (Master)
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2010/09/01 - 2011/12/12 APLICACIÓN DE HERRAMIENTAS BIOINFORMÁTICAS EN EL ESTUDIO DE LOS GENES SUPRESORES DE TUMOR
Supervisor
Master oficial en Bioinformática (Master)
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Spain
2010/09/01 - 2011/06/10 ncRNAs annotation in metagenomics and metatranscriptomic samples through the INFERNAL tool and mapping into a reference genome
Supervisor
Máster oficial de Bioinformática (Master)
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Spain
2010/09/01 - 2011/05/09 Creación de una base de datos y portal web especializados en histonas variantes de moluscos bivalvos
Supervisor
Máster oficial en Bioinformática (Master)
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/01/18 - 2021/01/22 Gene prediction and annotation of whole genomes Doctoral Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution - BIODIV (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2020/03/02 - 2020/03/29 Sequenciaçao de nova geraçao Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2019/10/01 - 2020/01/31 Sequenciaçao de Nova Geraçao Mestrado em Bioinformática e Biología Computacional (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/11/04 - 2019/11/24 Alinhamento multiple e analises filogenéticos Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2019/04/29 - 2019/05/26 Prediçao de genes en prokariotas e eukaryotas Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2019/03/04 - 2019/03/31 Sequenciaçao de nova geraçao Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2018/10/01 - 2019/01/31 Sequenciaçao de Nova Geraçao Mestrado em Bioinformática e Biología Computacional (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2019/01/14 - 2019/01/16 Gene Prediction and Annotation of Genomes Doctoral Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution - BIODIV - (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2018/12/17 - 2018/12/19 Scripting and Command Line Tricks for Biologists Doctoral Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution - BIODIV - (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/23 Alinhamento multiples e analises filogenético Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2018/10/29 - 2018/10/31 Scripting and command line tricks for file modification Doctoral Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution - BIODIV - (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2018/04/30 - 2018/05/25 Prediçao de genes em prokariotas e eukariotas Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2018/03/20 - 2018/03/22 Gene prediction and annotation of whole genomes Doctoral Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution - BIODIV - (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/10/30 - 2018/01/31 Sequenciaçao de Nova Geraçao Mestrado em Bioinformática e Biología Computacional (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2017/12/13 - 2017/12/15 Scripting and Command Line Tricks for Biologists Doctoral Degree in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution - BIODIV - (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2017/11/06 - 2017/11/24 Alinhamento multiple e analises filogenéticos Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
2017/05/01 - 2017/05/26 Prediçao de genes en prokariotas e eukaryotas Diploma de Especialización en Análisis Bioinformático (Postgraduate Certificate) Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/02/07 - Current BMC Bioinformatics (1471-2105) Springer Nature
2021/02/15 - Current BMC Plant Biology (1471-2229) BioMed Central Ltd.
2019/02/03 - Current Data in Brief (2352-3409) Elsevier
2018/04/06 - Current Scientific Reports (2045-2322) Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Distinctions

Award

2014 Best PhD Thesis in 2013 at Science Faculty (University of Malaga)
Universidad de Málaga, Spain