Finally, he has participated in several important human health-related projects. He organized and led the analysis of a benchmarking exercise for somatic variant calling as part of the Verification/Validation Subgroup of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. His team is also involved in a project to sequence and create a national database of genome-phenome data for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. He is author of more than 45 research articles (with more than 20,000 citations, H-index 23), one review article and four book chapters on gene prediction and genome sequence assembly.