Bioinformatics Facility

生物信息学设施为癌症中心的研究人员提供数据库管理、软件 生物医学的统计分析和计算建模方面的应用支持和专业知识 研究数据。为了应对癌症中心研究人员日益增长的信息学需求， 生物信息学设施成立于2001年，由癌症中心发展基金联合成立 和制度支持。癌症中心已进行重大投资，以增加生物信息学设施 过去供资期间的空间、仪器和人员。在拉马纳博士的指导下 计算生物学主任达武里说，生物信息学设施最近发展到包括 来自系统和计算生物学中心的教职员工、程序员和统计专家。 该设施的功能反映了三个癌症中心项目的研究要求，并 大致分为三个领域：(1)数据管理；(2)统计分析和计算模型； 以及(Iii)用于综合癌症生物学的先进生物信息学工具。生物信息学的特殊服务 设施包括：1)为数据库软件和生物信息学工具的使用提供计算支持；2) 为高通量实验提供统计设计和数据分析方面的咨询支持；3) 为高通量分子(微阵列和测序)数据、组织相关数据提供共享档案 数据、图像数据和药效学数据(扩展和新服务)；以及4)适应和实施 聚合分析和数据挖掘工具，允许集成和交叉验证全面的 用于综合癌症生物学研究的分子数据(2008年新服务)。该设施已经放置了一个 高度重视整合代表各种数据类型的癌症研究信息，包括临床数据 患者数据、来自微阵列的分子数据、大规模并行测序仪(例如Illumina[Solexa]基因组 Analyzer)和RT-PCR，以及来自数字化显微镜载玻片的图像数据。数据安全是的主要关注点 设计和实施软件系统的生物信息学设施。该基金还提供 帮助分析基因组、分子和蛋白质组数据的计算生物信息学支持 使用商业和本地开发的软件包。 最近，该设施已搬迁到新装修的空间(2,006平方英尺)。FT)，提供了一种状态-- 艺术服务器机房和扩大的办公和会议室空间。

The Bioinformatics Facility provides Cancer Center investigators with database management, software applications support, and expertise in statistical analyses and computational modeling of biomedical research data. In response to the growing informatics needs of funded Cancer Center researchers, the Bioinformatics Facility was established in 2001 with a combination of Cancer Center developmental funds and institutional support. The Cancer Center has made major investments to increase Bioinformatics facility space, instrumentation, and personnel over the past funding period. Under the direction of Dr. Ramana Davuluri, Director of Computational Biology, the Bioinformatics Facility has recently grown to consist of faculty, programmers, and statistical specialists from the Center for Systems and Computational Biology. Functions of the Facility reflect the research requirements of the three Cancer Center programs and are broadly divided into three areas: (i) data-management; (ii) statistical analyses and computational modeling; and (iii) advanced bioinformatics tools for integrative cancer biology. Specific services of the Bioinformatics Facility are to: 1) provide computational support for use of database software and bioinformatics tools; 2) provide consulting support regarding statistical design and data analyses for high-throughput experiments; 3) provide shared archives for high throughput molecular (both microarray and sequencing) data, tissue related data, image data, and pharmacodynamics data (extended and new service); and 4) adapt and implement cohesive analysis and data mining tools that allow for integration and cross-validation of the comprehensive molecular data used in integrative cancer biology research (new service in 2008). The Facility has placed a high priority on integrating cancer research information representing a variety of data types, including clinical patient data, molecular data from microarrays, massive-parallel sequencers (e.g. Illumina [Solexa] Genome Analyzer) and RT-PCR, and image data from digitized microscopy slides. Data security is a primary focus of the Bioinformatics Facility in designing and implementing software systems. The Facility also provides computational bioinformatics support to assist in the analysis of genomic, molecular, and proteomic data using commercial and locally-developed software packages. Most recently, the facility has been re-located into newly renovated space (2,006 sq. ft.), providing a state-ofthe- art server room and expanded office and conference room space.