Albuquerque, M. A. | Search bioRxiv

bioRxiv2017

BPG: Seamless, Automated and Interactive Visualization of Scientific Data

We introduce BPG, an easy-to-use framework for generating publication-quality, highly-customizable plots in the R statistical environment. This open-source package includes novel methods of displaying high-dimensional datasets and facilitates generation of complex multi-panel figures, making it ideal for complex datasets. A web-based interactive tool allows online figure customization, from which R code can be downloaded for seamless integration with computational pipelines. BPG is available at http://labs.oicr.on.ca/boutros-lab/software/bpg

bioinformatics↗

bioRxiv2016

Enhancing Knowledge Discovery from Cancer Genomics Data with Galaxy

We present a collection of Galaxy tools representing many popular algorithms for detecting somatic genetic alterations from cancer genome and exome data. We implemented methods for parallelization of these tools within Galaxy to accelerate runtime and have demonstrated their usability on cloud-based infrastructure and commodity hardware. Some tools represents extensions or refinement of existing toolkits to yield visualizations suited to cohort-wide cancer genomic analysis. For example, we present Oncocircos and Oncoprintplus, which generate data-rich summaries of exome-derived somatic mutation. Workflows that integrate several of these to perform some standard data integration and visualization tasks are demonstrated on a cohort of 96 diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, enabling the discovery of multiple candidate lymphoma-related genes that have not been reported previously.

genomics↗