Publications

Relating Functional Connectivity and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Derivation of Relevance Maps for Regions and Connections

Published in Human Brain Mapping, vol. 46, issue 2, 2025

Systematic review of the literature linking resting-state fMRI functional connectivity to alcohol use disorder (39 studies), analysing patterns in methods and datasets used and deriving quantitative relevance maps showing associations recurring most frequently between connectivity and the disorder, both in whole-brain and seed-based analyses.

Recommended citation: Marco Bottino, Natálie Bocková, Nico W. Poller, Michael N. Smolka, Justin Böhmer, Henrik Walter and Michael Marxen (2025). " Relating Functional Connectivity and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Derivation of Relevance Maps for Regions and Connections " Human Brain Mapping, vol. 46, issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70156

SARS-CoV-2 variants classification and characterization

Published in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2022

The idea of this work is to automatize the process of analysis and description of the SARS-CoV-2 virus starting from a sample of its genome and to be able to assign a group of samples to the correct variant. By using a clustering algorithm, in the end, it’s also possible to distinguish a new variant and obtain a description of its most common mutations.

Recommended citation: Sofia Borgato, Marco Bottino, Marta Lovino, and Elisa Ficarra (2022). " SARS-CoV-2 variants classification and characterization " Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.29007/5qpk