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

Main equipement

• HPC servers at the de Duve Institute

Applications

• Data analysis: 

  - epigenetic
  - genomics
  - metabolomics
  - metagenomics
  - proteomics
  - transcriptomics

• Development of scientific applications
• R programming and development

Services available to

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