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  • 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 [...]

  • August 2, 2013

    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 [...]