Rafael Ayala

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Research Associate
OIST, Okinawa, Japan



I completed my BSc in Biochemistry at the University of Seville in 2014, and received my PhD in 2020 at Imperial College London. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan. My PhD focused on the analysis of the structure of biological macromolecules by cryo-EM, which is still one of my main research interests. Recently, I have also become interested in the analysis of geospatial data, such as aircraft tracking and satellite positioning, as well as the application of machine learning techniques to these fields.


Publications

2024

Sola, Fernando; Ayala, Daniel; Pulido, Marina; Ayala, Rafael; López-Cerero, Lorena; Hernández, Inma; Ruiz, David

ginmappeR: an unified approach for integrating gene and protein identifiers across biological sequence databases Journal Article

In: Bioinformatics Advances, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. vbae129, 2024, ISSN: 2635-0041.

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2023

Ayala, Daniel; Ayala, Rafael; Vidal, Lara Sellés; Hernández, Inma; Ruiz, David

Neural Networks for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction: Answering Open Questions About Their Performance Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 26593-26610, 2023, ISSN: 2169-3536.

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Ayala, Rafael; Ayala, Daniel; Vidal, Lara Sellés; Ruiz, David

asteRisk - Integration and Analysis of Satellite Positional Data in R. Journal Article

In: R Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 34-54, 2023, ISSN: 2073-4859.

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Sola, Fernando; Ayala, Daniel; Ayala, Rafael; Hernández, Inma; Rivero, Carlos R; Ruiz, David

AYNEXT-tools for streamlining the evaluation of link prediction techniques Journal Article

In: SoftwareX, vol. 23, pp. 101474, 2023, ISSN: 2352-7110.

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2021

Ayala, Rafael; Ayala, Daniel; Vidal, Lara Sellés; Ruiz, David

openSkies-Integration of Aviation Data into the R Ecosystem. Journal Article

In: R Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 485, 2021, ISSN: 2073-4859.

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