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  • March 9, 2015

    In silico prescription of anticancer drugs to cohorts of 28 tumor types reveals novel targeting opportunities

    We are pleased to announce the publication of our paper in Cancer Cell describing the landscape of anti-cancer targeted therapeutic opportunities across a cohort of patients of twenty [...]

  • December 19, 2014

    How to generate mutation distribution and frequency plots?

    Let’s plot some mutations! Easy, right? For our next iteration of the IntOGen database, we wanted to add figures that represent the mutation distribution across the protein sequence. [...]

  • August 26, 2014

    OncodriveROLE predicts activating and loss of function cancer driver genes

    We are pleased to announce that the Oncodrive methods family has a new member: OncodriveROLE, an approach to classify cancer drivers into loss of function and activating roles. [...]

  • August 7, 2014

    Molecular subtypes of human cancer

    Cancers are typically classified depending on their tissue of origin. However, novel large-scale genomic studies are providing more detailed molecular characterizations of tumors, and thus bring about the [...]

  • July 16, 2014

    How to identify oncogenic driver mutations: a review of bioinformatics approaches

    Recently, at least three articles have reviewed the ensemble of bioinformatics tools developed in the past few years to understand the alterations that plague the genome and transcriptome [...]

  • July 14, 2014

    Mutual exclusion statistics and data events in Gitools

    We’re pleased to announce another incremental release of Gitools, version 2.2. Amongst the many improvements (listed at the bottom of this post) we’d like to highlight the effort [...]

  • March 17, 2014

    Identifying disease related mutations with Condel 2.0

    Three years ago, Abel developed and published in the American Journal of Human Genetics an approach to combine the results of several tools aimed at identifying disease-related single [...]

  • March 11, 2014

    How to perform a hierarchical clustering using interactive heatmaps in Gitools

    In the latest version of Gitools, version 2.1, we have improved the clustering of heatmaps. Here we explain in detail on how to perform and interpret the hierarchical [...]

  • March 4, 2014

    Gitools 2.1 visits VizBi

    We’d like to communicate two things: We have released a new version of Gitools which brings new capabilities. With these the new Gitools 2.1.0 in the suitcase, Nuria [...]

  • January 21, 2014

    Practical Workshop on “Cancer Omics Data Integration” in Heidelberg

    Since last year I am participating in the COST Action BM1204 titled “An integrated European platform for pancreas cancer research: from basic science to clinical and public health [...]