Barcelona Summer School in Genomics and Bioinformatics
I am happy to announce the Barcelona Summer School in Genomics and Bioinformatics, which will take place from September 17th to 21st 2012. The course is [...]
June 27, 2012
Khademul is now a doctor!
Khademul Islam, full name Abul Bashar Mir Mohammad Khademul Islam, defended his Thesis work on Monday. He delivered a 50 minutes presentation followed by 1h and 15 minutes of [...]
June 6, 2012
Insights into 14-3-3σ-mediated NF-κB role in breast cancer
14-3-3σ is an adaptor protein that regulates multiple signal transduction pathways. It has been described as a tumour suppressor in breast cancer, where it is often lost or [...]
April 25, 2012
Sample Level Enrichment Analysis (SLEA) Tutorial and Gitools 1.6.2
As you may have read in the last post, Günes and Nuria presented the Sample Level Enrichment Analysis (SLEA) as a methodology to analyse the transcription level of [...]
March 30, 2012
Sample Level Enrichment Analysis (SLEA) unravels shared stress phenotypes among multiple cancer types
We are happy to share with you the results of a new publication, which has been published today in Genome Medicine: Gunes Gundem and Nuria Lopez-Bigas. Sample level [...]
March 26, 2012
BIG12 – Bioinformatics for Integrative Genomics course in Oeiras
This year our lab will participate again in the Gulbenkian Training Program in Bioinformatics (GTPB). Abel and Michael will give a 3 days course on Bioinformatics for [...]
March 21, 2012
Gitools 1.6.1 release
We announce today a new release of Gitools, version 1.6.1. A few bugs have been fixed and some of them are important, so we recommend to update Gitools [...]
March 19, 2012
Exploring the effect of cancer genomic alteration on expression with Gitools
Cancer cells often exhibit a change in number of copies of certain genomic regions when compared to normal cells (Copy Number Alterations: CNAs). Some of these CNAs may have [...]
March 8, 2012
Visualizing mutually exclusive alteration patterns in cancer with Gitools
On the quest to identify cancer driver genes, it has been observed that driver alterations that affect a pathway tend to be altered in a mutually exclusive manner. As [...]
March 6, 2012
Exploring multiple cancer genomics alterations with Gitools.
Cancer genomics data that is produced creates multi-dimensional data sets. Gitools lets you browse all that data at once. A typical cancer genomics project nowadays screens [...]
