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Given the complexity, omics data like RNA-seq are often analyzed by bioinformaticians, and not the wetlab researchers that performed the experiments. With the biomedical researcher (with limited or no bioinformatics skills) in mind as the end-user, we developed the user-friendly, publicly accessible R2 platform (http://r2.amc.nl), enabling biomedical scientists to work with their own data from anywhere at any time. R2 (cited in >850 peer-reviewed scientific publications) consists of an omics database, coupled to an extensive set of interactive tools to analyze/visualize the datasets. Interactive analyses within the software are highly connected, allowing quick navigation between various aspects of the datamining process. Besides password protected private data, R2 also contains an extensive body of publicly available omics data, enabling users to relate their findings to other diseases / tissues, or as validation in …