A lot of my bioinformatics work involves performing functional annotation on genes. This means that given lits of genes I need to resolve their known function, or if they’re part or some metabolic pathways and so on. Even with the current trend in our laboratory, that is investigating DNA copy number changes using SNP microarrays (it’s a rather new form of analysis, but some relevant papers are out already), in the end we have to go back to the genes affected by such changes (in order to find interesting/marker genes - we study solid tumors). Read More »