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Although protein-protein interaction networks are an ubiquitous component of modern systems biology, comparatively few efforts have been made to tailor their topology to the actual cellular condition under study. Since a simple reduction of the networks to the subset of expressed genes only scratches the surface of higher organisms’ regulatory capabilities, we propose the advanced method PPIXpress that allows to exploit expression data at the transcript-level and is thus able to also reveal alterations in protein connectivity caused by alternative splicing. The original publication can be found on https://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/4/571 .

GESPA (GEnomic Single nucleotide Polymorphism Analyzer) is a bioinformatics tool for classifying Nonsynonymous Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (nsSNPs). GESPA predicts if a nsSNP is pathogenic using reports from literature and various algorithms to assess conservation in orthologous and paralogous protein alignments. Using reports from literature, GESPA is also able to predict the phenotype of a nsSNP with high accuracy. The software can be used clinically to determine if observed nsSNPs are...

...Our laboratory exploits PCR techniques and next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods, to perform high-throughput integration site monitoring in different clinical trials and scientific projects, based on the delivery of therapeutic genes by viral vectors integrating into the genome of target cells. We process around 1500 samples/year resulting in hundreds of millions of sequencing reads, requiring automation and posing new challenges in data storage, monitoring of sample process and computational tools for analyses. Thus we need to standardize data management and tracking systems, built on a scalable, flexible structure with an easily accessible and web based interface, what is usually called Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).