Bioinformatics

Overview

The Bioinformatics Unit (BINF) at CAAD aims to conduct research in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology and to provide data analysis support, both for UPO researchers and for external laboratories and partners.

The advent of inexpensive high-throughput technologies allows the production of large-scale genomic dataset in practically all life-science domains. Once produced, the data must be analyzed, very often in highly specialized manners, to extract useful information.

This demands a broad range of advanced computational and statistical expertise, along with the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, in order to address the specific needs of each research group.

The primary research interests of BINF are in the field of regulatory networks, cancer and plant genomics, non-coding DNA and metagenomics. In addition, BINF supports research in designing, conducting and interpreting high-throughput experiments in several life science domains. We utilize and implement various types of big data analysis pipelines, with a recent focus on applications of machine learning and deep learning.

We can operate in terms of scientific collaboration and/or in terms of fee-based services. 

Services

BINF Unit offers computational support for all the main type of high-throughput NGS sequencing analysis, including ChIP-seq / ATAC-seq data, mRNA and microRNA-seq data, exome sequencing data, WGS, metagenomics, single-cell RNA-seq.

The computational support offered is mainly based on a local implementation of state-of-the-art analysis pipelines. In addition to that, the group offers consultancy for non-standard custom analysis and support over long-term projects.

Infrastructure

The Unit is equipped with last-generation desktop Linux computers as well as with a set of high-level dedicated UNIX server machines. 

How to access

To request a service or to propose a collaborative project please contact the Unit coordinator (PI): Prof. Davide Corà : davide.cora@uniupo.it.

No access to the computational infrastructures is allowed for external users, due to security reasons.

Price list 2024