RESOURCES WE LOVE

Disclaimer: We do not own or have any relationships with these websites and links. They are simply things we use regularly in our lab that we find useful.

GBM & Cancer Databases

GlioVis

View expression, survival, and correlation data from GBM TCGA.

String.db

View protein interactions networks, and get a GO analysis of proteins

Protein Atlas

View cell/tissue protein levels in cancer and normal tissues.

Enrichr

View pathway analysis of protein set in various different datasets.

cBioPortal

A rich viewer for TCGA datasets across all cancer types, with clinical tracks.

Tumor Portal

Collects DNA mutations, annotations, and key genes across cancers.

 

UCSC Xena

A viewer than can create beautiful visualizations of various tumor datasets.

CCLE

A database where various cancer cell lines’ expression info is stored.

IvyGap

A database that provides in situ hybridization and molecular information.

TCGA

A database of many cancers with multiple levels of info.

GBM Portal

A portal by NCI for accessing and displaying TCGA data.

NCD

A cancer patient database providing long-term outcomes

 

Bioinformatics Analysis Algorithms

For developing coding skills, we recommend codeacademy or datacamp.
For coding environments, Rstudio and Anaconda are useful for R and Python respectively.
For quality analysis of sequencing data, we recommend using FastQC or MultiQC.
For bioinformatic analysis, we have linked some useful pipelines and modules below.

DESeq2

An algorithm used for analysis of RNASeq data for expression

Seurat

A full pipeline that allows analysis of single cell drop seq datasets

MAGeCK

A pipeline that performs CRISPR screening analysis for gene identification

MACS2

A pipeline for peak calling for ChIP Seq datasets

Homer

A software that can perform full annotations of ChIP Seq data

CaRpools

A package for analysis of CRISPR data that backs CRISPRAnalyzR

PDX Cell Lines

Mayo clinic has a large repository of GBM PDX cell lines, along with characterization information for all lines.

Data Visualization

Canva

A great tool for creating graphics and visualizations

Tableau

Quick and easy data visualizations of large datasets

BioRender

Great for making scientific figures and illustrations