Bioinformatics Support Unit

Bioinformatics Support UnitThe Bioinformatics Support Unit is here to meet the needs of Newcastle University researchers engaged in high-throughput experimental studies in genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics.

Services Offered

The Bioinformatics Support Unit has extensive expertise in making sense of the deluge of data from modern scientific studies. With core competencies in handling traditional 'omics' datasets (genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic) the Unit is able to advise on all issues related to the capture, analysis and long-term storage of high-throughput experimental data.

The Unit provides access to both hardware and software for data analysis, including powerful server machines for computationally intensive next-generation sequencing work and top of the range desktop machines in common user areas for visualising and working with biological network data.

Our staff are equally skilled with bacterial and eukaryotic datasets, from non-model organisms to the human genome and able to offer support and assistance in the complex task of integrating and extracting biological knowledge from large datasets.

We provide custom services including software and database development through to web development to publish your data. We also support releasing your data in standards-compliant formats to databases like ArrayExpress, GEO, PRIDE and SRA. Researchers can request and attend bespoke training courses in a number of software packages such as GeneSpring GX, Bioconductor, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, Progenesis Samespots and Cytoscape.

Successfully applying bioinformatics to scientific research requires the involvement of an informatician at every step of the process. We are happy to advise on the likely informatics requirement of a project at the grant preparation stage, support your application as a named investigator, supply wording, costings and advice on experimental design and follow through to publication to ensure successful submissions.

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