Researchers at the Health Sciences Research Institute of the German Trias i Pujol Foundation (IGTP) are using Qlucore Omics Explorer to support their research into various diseases.
These include inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
The IGTP hopes to generate, preserve, disseminate and increase multidisciplinary and translational knowledge and to support the continued technological development of biomedical sciences.
Eli Pedrosa Tapias, technical supervisor at the IGPT, said: 'Our aim at the IGTP is to become a research centre of reference, so that we can take all of the knowledge that we generate here and transfer it to clinical practice and therapeutic centres all over the world.
'Tools such as Qlucore Omics Explorer are helping us to achieve this goal by making our research much more efficient and by providing our researchers with valuable data that they can interpret very quickly.
'As a result, we can afford to be more creative with our theories and therefore gain much greater insight into the mysteries of human disease,' he added.
Qlucore Omics Explorer is an advanced data analysis tool that is claimed to be powerful yet easy to use.
One of the key methods used by Qlucore Omics Explorer to visualise data is dynamic principal component analysis (PCA), a way of combining PCA analysis with immediate user interaction.
PCA analysis works by projecting high dimensional data down to lower dimensions.
With Qlucore Omics Explorer, this PCA data is projected and plotted on a 2D computer screen and then rotated manually or automatically.
The software allows the actual researchers - the people with the most biological insight - to study their own data and to look for patterns and structures.
As a result, researchers do not need to be statistics or computer experts in order to use Qlucore Omics Explorer effectively.
