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  • December 18, 2013

    VIZBI 2014: Visualizing Biological Data

    Two years ago I attended the VIZBI 2012 to present our latest work on and with Gitools, a tool we use to explore interactive heatmaps of genomics data. [...]

  • November 13, 2013

    Our lab receives funding from La Marató de TV3

    We are very honored to announce that we have received funds for a 3-year project from the money raised in the last telethon broadcast La Marató de TV3. [...]

  • October 29, 2013

    Our research explained in a short video

    The University Pompeu Fabra has produced a video in which we explain in brief our research. We recorded three versions of the video, one in Catalan, one in [...]

  • October 27, 2013

    IntOGen-mutations analysis pipeline 2.4.0 released

    Recently we published the paper describing IntOGen-mutations (see this post for more information). Now we are happy to announce a new release of the IntOGen-mutations pipeline (version 2.4.0), [...]

  • October 25, 2013

    My slides on: Identification of cancer drivers across tumor types

    Yesterday I gave a talk at the PRBB Computational Genomics Seminars Series. In that talk I summarized our work of this year in the lab. Basically, we have [...]

  • October 2, 2013

    Comprehensive identification of mutational cancer driver genes across 12 tumor types

    The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is an initiative supported by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute. Its immediate aim is to obtain a [...]

  • September 27, 2013

    The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer Project

    Yesterday the paper describing TCGA Pan-Cancer Project was published in Nature Genetics. We’ve had the opportunity to participate in this exciting project and here I would like to [...]

  • September 25, 2013

    Chromatin maintenance and cancer

    It is now well established that cancer is a collection of mostly genetic diseases. They progress through the accumulation of alterations, such as point mutations in genes that [...]

  • September 16, 2013

    IntOGen-mutations: the analysis of cancer genomes published in Nature Methods

    Yesterday night, our IntOGen-mutations paper went online in Nature Methods. A couple of years of hard work of our team lies now condensed into a couple of pages. [...]

  • August 21, 2013

    OncodriveCLUST: a method to reveal cancer drivers based on mutation clustering

    We have recently developed a novel method, named OncodriveCLUST, aimed to analyse the mutations observed in sets of tumor samples and identify genes involved in the disease. It [...]