Our Capabilities

Bioinformatics general

• Transcriptomics experimental design and data analysis
• Next Generation de novo and re-sequencing experimental design and data analysis
• Comparative genomics
• Phylogenetics
• Sequence analysis
• In silico genetic marker prediction
• Nucleic acid structure prediction
• Integration of *omics and biological (phenotype) data
• Automated genome annotation
• Automated genome annotation
• Genome and general data visualisation
• Gene prediction
• Database design
• Functional prediction and classification
• Proteomics support
• Pipeline development
• Programming and scripting
• Training and education

Bioinformatics specific examples

• In silico simulations for experimental design (e.g. reduced representation approaches)
• Cost benefit analyses of using different sequencing platforms
• Gene expression experimental design and data analysis (all platforms from microarrays, qPCR to digital transcriptomics)
• DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis
• Sequence assembly and annotation (all platforms from Sanger to SOLiD)
• Functional protein classification
• DNA and RNA secondary structure prediction
• Phylogenetics (includes multiple alignments, different approaches such as ML, Bayesian)
• Comparative microbial genomics
• Bioinformatics pipeline design
• Design of genome browsers and other interactive and non-interactive visualisation tools
• De novo gene and motif prediction (e.g. identification of genes, transcription factors, regulatory elements)
• In silico SNP (and other genetic marker) prediction
• Systems biology, data integration, pathway classification
• Probe design
• Bioinformatics database design (custom BLAST databases)
• Programming and shell scripting
• Training courses in bioinformatics (including bioinformatics scripting)