Bioinformatics

GSCT offers a large range of services to users

Most of the services rendered make use of the R language and the bioconductor package
The ability to interact with biological data at a programmatic level offers many advantages for users

Bioconductor

Is the largest open source community dealing specifically with all sorts of biological data from NGS to protein arrays

• Cooperate directly with produced R scripts with other experts in the field of bioinformatics
• Use R statistics to look critically at the data and avoid black box errors
• Compare results with other applications, algorithms, experiments
• Integrate and compare data with online and constantly updated databases
• Interpret results through integration with online resources
• Effectively manage larger datasets
• Ensures reproducibility through script command interface and therefore not reliant on individuals.

BIOINFORMATIC Services

• NGS sequence analysis from FASTQ to BAM , VCF and beyond
• Microarray analysis (LIMMA) and datamining (GEOQuery)
• Extended annotation with Bioconductors numerous annotation packages
• Functional analyses with GSEA and other enrichment algorithms.
• Explore up/down stream regions with Genomic Ranges
• Create custom high quality figures for publication with R's extensive graphing library
• Help with the visualization and interpretation of complex data
• Help with file formats, headers, and statistics
• Help with finding relevant and available resources and applications

Local Users

• Stuck with a biological dataset?
• Time running out?
• Unsure of what to do and NO ONE is answering your emails?
• Contact: ruth.h.paulssen@uit.no, christopher.fenton@uit.no