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Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research Group
Cancer Research Center (CiC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL) and IBSAL (IIS-ISCiii)
Salamanca (SPAIN)

Dr. Javier DE LAS RIVAS (PI)
Dr. Jose Manuel SÁNCHEZ SANTOS - Dr. Manuel MARTÍN MERINO
Natalia ALONSO - Dr. Santiago BUENO-FORTES - Alberto BERRAL - Enrique DE LA ROSA - Emma PÉREZ-GARCÍA
Former Members:
Sara AIBAR - Fernando BUENO - Francisco CAMPOS - Conrad DROSTE - Celia FONTANILLO - Juan HERNÁNDEZ TORO
Oscar GONZÁLEZ-VELASCO - Carlos PRIETO - Alberto RISUEÑO - Beatriz ROSÓN - Elena SÁNCHEZ-LUIS

SCIENTIFIC AREAS:  Bioinformatics -  Functional Genomics -  Cancer Genomics -  Cancer Research -  Protein Interactomics -  Network Biology -  AI & Computational Biology

RESEARCH TOPICS:  Integrative analyses of genomic and proteomic data derived from patient-oriented studies in cancer. Bioinformatics applied to find new cancer biomarkers and cancer drivers. Use of cancer genomic data to improve patient stratification, disease subtype profiling and prognosis analysis. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics applied to studies in onco-hematology. Studies on the human proteome and interactome: build, validate and analyse protein interaction networks.




Main Bioinformatics Research Centers (USA & EUROPE):

NCBI The National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH, USA
EBI The European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK

Web Links related to Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Functional Genomics:


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GENOMES

Human Genome
ENSEMBL EBI, Hinxton, UK
The Sanger Centre The Sanger Centre, Hinxton, UK
BROAD Institute BROAD Institute, MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Non-Human Genomes
Mouse MGI Mouse Genome Informatics
C. elegans Wormbase
Drosophila  Flybase
Saccharomyces SGD Saccharomyces Genome Database
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PROTEINS & GENES

 Sequence search / alignments

PROTEINS primary DB UniProt, SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL (ExPASy, CH)
GENES primary DB Gene Entrez (NCBI, USA)
Blast_NCBI Basic/Advanced BLAST  (blastall)  search at NCBI

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Primary structure
 
InterPro Integrated resource of protein domains and functional sites (EBI, UK)
Pfam Protein domains and motifs  (EMBL)
ExPASy Tools ExPASy Proteomics tools
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Secondary structure
 
PredictProtein The PredictProtein server  (Columbia, USA)
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Tertiary structure (3D)
 
Swiss-Model SWISS-MODEL. An Automated Comparative Protein Modelling Server (ExPASy, CH)
PDB - RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB)
PDBsum Summaries and structural analyses of PDB data files (UCL, UK)
SCOP Structural Classification of Proteins (MRC-LMB, UK)
CATH CATH Protein Structure Classification (UCL-BSM, UK)
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PATWAYS

KEGG KEGG:Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (ICR, JP)
REACTOME Reactome is a database of biological pathways
 

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BIBLIOGRAPHY & SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

PubMed PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service 
   
Science The EMBO Journal Bioinformatics
Nature Journal of Biological Chemistry PLoS Computational Biology
Nature Biotecnology Current Opinions Online BMC Bioinformatics
Nature Cell Biol. Journal of Molecular Biology BMC Genomics
Nature Genetics Molecular Cell  Protein Science
Nature Struct. Biol. Molecular and Cellular Biology  Protein Engineering
Cell Nucleic Acid Research Proteins: Struc. Func. and Bioinformatics
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA FEBS Letters BBA
   

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Last update: March, 2024.