How to identify functional genetic variants in cancer genomes?
The possibility to rapidly and inexpensively sequence tumor genomes is opening important new avenues for cancer research. One of the main objectives when sequencing tumor genomes is to [...]
July 25, 2013
Interactive heat-maps to explore biological data
Heat-maps are graphical representations of data where values in a matrix are represented following a color scale. This way of representing data has proven to be a very [...]
July 5, 2013
Barcelona Summer School of Genomics and Bioinformatics 2013
This year the Barcelona Summer School of Genomics and Bioinformatics is offering two courses, one on "Next Generation Sequencing for Medical Genomics", coordinated by Ferran Casals from the [...]
June 27, 2013
List of tools to visualize multidimensional cancer genomics data
A while ago we published a review about multidimensional cancer genomics data visualization in Genome Medicine. There, we focused on effective and common visualization techniques for exploring oncogenomics data [...]
May 10, 2013
The Biology of Genomes meeting at CSHL: my poster about IntOGen
This is a very short post to share the poster that I am presenting this week at the Biology of Genomes meeting in CSHL. […]
May 7, 2013
Alba is a PhD!
Last Monday, April 29th, Alba defended her PhD thesis at the PRBB. It was the highest point of a story that started some five years ago, when she [...]
April 3, 2013
SVGMap 1.5.0 released
After some kind feedback from the Bergman Lab, we have released a new version of SVGmap, 1.5.0. In the Bergman Lab they are using SVGmap for displaying tissue-specific [...]
March 26, 2013
New OncodriveFM release 0.3.2
Some time ago Abel wrote about how to identify cancer drivers from tumor somatic mutations, and presented OncodriveFM. Nuria also posted a nice poster explaining it together with [...]
March 20, 2013
Oncogenomics workshop: my slides on the analysis of Somatic Mutations in IntOGen
Last week I attended the Oncogenomics Workshop in Hinxton. This was a really interesting Workshop organized by the Industry program of the EBI. It addressed the issues of [...]
March 12, 2013
New IntOGen Somatic Mutations Analysis version available
We are proud to announce the brand new version of the IntOGen Somatic Mutations Analysis (IntOGen SM) pipeline. We call it version 2.0.0 as it has been completely rewritten [...]
