ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our team would like to thank the teachers of the bioinformatics course for their help and patience required to carry out this project. Specially, we would like to thank our tutor Laia for guiding and advising us during the development of the project.

Next, we would like to thank our lecturers Cedric Notredame and Roderic Guigó for giving us the theoretical bases which have proven to be essential for carrying out this project. Also, we would like to thank the teachers who gave us the practical lessons, Robert Castelo and Toni Gabaldón.

Finally, we would like to thank our classmates for their support during all the hours spent together doing this project.