Alessandro Vinceti

Alessandro Vinceti is a PhD student in the Computational Biology Research Centre at Human Technopole. He completed a Bachelor’s in Biotechnology from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, followed by a Master’s in Bioinformatics from the University of Bologna.

As part of his PhD, Alessandro is contributing to the development of tools for the correction and analysis of data derived from CRISPR-Cas9 screens based on large cohorts of human immortalised cancer cell lines. The aim is to exploit the genetic features of tumour models to find suitable therapeutic targets that will lead to the development/repurposing of the right drug for the right patient, following precision medicine principles.

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Publications

  • 01/2021 - Genome Biology

    Minimal genome-wide human CRISPR-Cas9 library

    CRISPR guide RNA libraries have been iteratively improved to provide increasingly efficient reagents, although their large size is a barrier for many applications. We design an optimised minimal genome-wide human CRISPR-Cas9 library (MinLibCas9) by mining existing large-scale gene loss-of-function datasets, resulting in a greater than 42% reduction in size compared to other CRISPR-Cas9 libraries while […]