Bielefeld-Gießen Resource Center for Microbial Bioinformatics (BiGi)
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About
The Bielefeld-Gießen (BiGi) Bioinformatics Resource Center combines bioinformatics expertise and facilities at Bielefeld University and Justus-Liebig-University Gießen providing bioinformatics support, compute resources and software tools for the field of microbial genome research. In 2016, the center was extended by the partner project MetaProtServ at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg complementing the microbial genome analysis portfolio for metaproteome data analysis.
Services
The resource center offers bioinformatics services and user training for biologists as well as for bioinformaticians. Particular emphasis is being placed on first level user support and the provision of customized services for different levels of user competence. Users that require support in the analysis of microbial data are offered access to ready-to-use bioinformatics software solutions and guidance on applicable analysis methods. Users with a background in shell programming or scripting are provided a wide range of state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools including up-to-date data resources, e.g. for BLAST searches. Software developers that require compute and storage resources for advanced data analyses or the development and evaluation of novel analysis methods is granted direct access to high performance and cloud computing resources.
Developments
Developments at the center particularly address large-scale genomics and post-genomics data integration and exploration. A central objective is the development and provision of a repository of reusable workflows allowing to replicate the analyses of former projects on same or additional data, or to recycle tried-and-tested workflows as a starting point for adaptation and enhancement in new projects.
Project Management
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Prof. Dr. Alexander Goesmann (Service Center Coordinator)
Bioinformatik und Systembiologie
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58
35392 Gießen
CeBiTec Website
Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BiBI) Website
Prof. Dr. Jens Stoye
Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec)
Universität Bielefeld
Universitätsstraße 27
33615 Bielefeld
Partner Project Management
Dr. Dirk Benndorf
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Institut für Verfahrenstechnik
Lehrstuhl Bioprozesstechnik
39106 Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Gunter Saake
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Department of Computer Science
Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems
Database Research Group
39016 Magdeburg, Germany
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