Bioinformatics (BIOINFO)

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Technical and scientific expertise

• Bioinformatics technical and methodological support:
  - advice on the conception or drafting of projects and the planning of experimental designs
  - analysis of data obtained from high-throughput technologies such as sequencing, microarrays or mass spectrometry
  - assistance in the exploitation of public databases (TCGA, Gtex, CCLE, ENCODE, etc.)
  - development of algorithms and dedicated software
• In collaboration with the SMCS platform, organisation of bioinformatics training for researchers in order to:
  - facilitate access to specialised programs such as R
  - introduce them to high-throughput data analysis
• Management of a data storage system, a scientific computing cluster, and a virtualization server implemented at the Health Sciences Sector of UCLouvain
• Consulting, training, and guidance on all aspects related to scientific computing and data storage

Main equipement

• Petabytes of storage space for short- and long-term data storage
• Cluster totaling more than 800 computing cores
• Virtualization server

Applications

• Data analysis :
  - epigenetic
  - genomics
  - metabolomics
  - metagenomics
  - proteomics
  - transcriptomics
• Development of scientific applications
• R programming and development
• Mass storage : multi-terabyte data storage – Data sharing – Archiving and long-term storage
• Computing solutions : numerous CPUs – Large memory capacities – GPUs – Ultra-fast networks
• Virtualization solutions : custom virtual machines for various purposes
• Consulting : infrastructure management – Installation of scientific software

Services available to

• UCLouvain students, clinicians and researchers
• Non-UCLouvain parties