Bioinformatics support

We have excellent bioinformatics facilities and support based in the School.

Bioinformatics Core Facility

Training

An autumn seminar series and an Easter practical series that are integrated into the Wellcome 4 year PhD programme but are open for others to attend.

Facilities

Shared workstations with the Light Microscopy Core facility as well as several dedicated bioinformatics servers hosting:

  • Galaxy server containing around 300 bioinformatics tools, biological workflows, data libraries for sharing large datasets, collaboration functions and data visualisation. Note that the Galaxy server is currently being developed for use with the Linux cluster 'Eddie' in collaboration with EDCF
  • BLAST server for searching custom databases
  • EMBOSS and EMBASSY suite of tools
  • GBrowse, GBrowse2 and a Distributed Annotation Server [DAS] for data
  • Visualisation and data sharing
  • Latest versions of Bioconductor (R), BioPerl, BioPython and BioRuby
  • Latest next-generation sequence assemblers including BowTie, Novoalign and Velvet
  • Many more bioinformatics programs, including HMMER, GLIMMER and the nucleosome predictor from the Segal lab

Bioinformatics Core

Light Microscopy Core

Analysis

We perform a wide range of requests encompassing both focused analysis of single locus/gene/protein and the analysis of high throughput data such as microarray, next-generation sequence and pre-processed proteomics data.

Shaun Webb

Bioinformatics Core Manager

Contact details

Ashworth Bioinformatics Club

We hold a regular NextGen Bioinformatics Journal Club in the Ashworth Building, where we discuss recent papers and software, with a particular focus on understanding algorithms and tools for large scale analyses. Everyone is welcome! If you want to be put on the mailing list for these meetings, please contact us.

ashworth-bioinformatics-club@googlegroups.com

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