Roseane da Silva Couto graduated in Analysis and Development of Technological Systems from the Faculty of Technology of the Amazon (2010); She is a PhD student in the Postgraduate Program in Biotechnology/UFPA. Her research focuses on the study, characterization and data mining of public sequences of viruses and plasmids. She currently works at the Viral Dynamics Laboratory (ICB/UFPA), focusing on in silico analysis of viral genomes in order to detect target sites for polymerase inhibitors.