We would express our gratitude to the following people and/or institutions because they made our research possible.

For Mentoring

• Dr Emili Saló, at Planarian lab (UB), was the postdoctoral advisor of Josep F Abril.
• Dr Roderic Guigó, at Genome Bioinformatics Lab (UPF), was the predoctoral advisor of Josep F Abril.

For Infrastructures

• We would like to thank Dr Francesc Villaroya and Dr Florenci Serras, who made possible that our computational lab became a reality. The Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona provided the room and some funding to set up the lab, which we share with Dr Xavier Barril's group.

For Funding

Projects

• We wish to thank Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from Spanish government for the research project grant (BFU2009-09102) which allowed us to start this group.
• We were able to establish scientific collaborations and share lab expertise with Dr Luca Gentile lab at Münster (Germany), thanks to Acciones Integradas Hispano-Alemanas (AIB2010DE-00402) for the 2010-2012 period.
• Dr Josep F Abril and PhD student Natalia Timoneda participate in a RecerCaixa'2012 research project, directed by Dra Rosina Gironés (2012ACUP-00330).

People

• Natalia Timoneda was supported on 2011 by a grant (CGL2010-15395) from Spanish Goverment Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.
• Marta Rodríguez received a studentship to collaborate at the Genetics Department during 2010/2011 course, from Ministerio de Educación, Spanish Goverment (BOE ORDEN EDU/1464/2011).