ncibtep@nih.gov

Bioinformatics Training and Education Program

BTEP News

UCSC Xena Workshop

  • Published On: September 20, 2017
  • Category: Workshop
  • By:
  • UCSC Xena (http://xena.ucsc.edu(link is external) is a web-based, visual exploration tool for all modes of multi-omic data and associated annotations. Xena has several seminal cancer datasets pre-loaded and ready for visualization including TCGA, ICGC, GTEx and more. The Xena public datasets include somatic SNPs, INDELs, large structural variants, CNV, gene-, transcript-, exon- protein-, miRNA-expression, DNA methylation, […]

The Art and Science of Data Mining

  • Published On: June 14, 2017
  • Category: Workshop
  • By:
  • The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a large-scale study that has catalogued genomic data accumulated from more than 20 different types of cancer including mutations, copy number variation, mRNA and miRNA gene expression, and DNA methylation. Being publicly distributed, it has become a major resource for cancer researchers for target discovery, biological interpretation and assessment […]