Facts: - alt: alfonso valencia speaking at ismb/eccb 2013 - caption: alfonso valencia speaking at ismb/eccb 2013 . - awards: embo member iscb fellow -lrb- 2010 -rrb- - name: alfonso valencia - image: ismbeccb13-012 . jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of alfonso valencia .
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alfonso valencia is a spanish biologist , the current director of the spanish national bioinformatics institute and the structural and computational biology group leader at the spanish national cancer research centre -lrb- cnio -rrb- .as of 2014 , he is also president-elect of the international society for computational biology .his research is focused on the study of protein families and their interaction networks .