We are pleased to announce that as of today a new version of Gitools is available: Gitools 1.6.0. The change from the 1.5.x to 1.6.x series promise new features, [...]
February 21, 2012
Sample Level Enrichment Analysis (SLEA) in Gitools to assess the transcriptional status of pathways per tumor
The identification of molecular biomarkers from expression data is a major objective in cancer research. It is clear that there is a benefit in pathway biomarkers [...]
February 8, 2012
Gitools database importer update: KEGG and Ensembl
Good news for Gitools users! As of now you can download the new version of Gitools - version 1.5.10 - which keeps up with the newest changes of [...]
February 1, 2012
A video animation explains IntOGen in 60 seconds
I am pleased to share with you a 60” video animation explaining our IntOGen project using easy to understand terms: […]
January 9, 2012
Barcelona Biomedical Genomics Lab on Twitter
During our last retreat we decided to open a twitter account. Some of us (@nlbigas, @chris_zen, @elbioc) are already using twitter, but we found useful to have one group [...]
December 23, 2011
p27 (Kip1) role as a transcriptional regulator
p27, also called Kip1, is a well known protein with a crucial role in cell cycle progression and cancer. p27 best known function is the inhibition of cyclin-dependent [...]
December 14, 2011
Our blog turns one!
This week our blog has turned one year old. We started the blog on 10th December 2010 with the idea of having a more flexible way of communicating [...]
December 1, 2011
Young Research Talent Award for Núria López-Bigas
Good news everyone! Last friday night - just returning from our retreat - we all received an email from Núria announcing the great news that she is going [...]
November 30, 2011
BG lab goes for a rural retreat
This last week we – the whole lab – spent a couple of days in a rural house near Ripoll, in the central area of Catalonia. We dedicated [...]
November 17, 2011
Finding correlated genes on TCGA expression data.
We have published a new section in IntOGen in collaboration with Hautaniemi Lab, where you can do a gene correlation with the gene expression results of TCGA (The Cancer [...]
