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The Computational Biology Service Unit at Cornell University (CBSU)
is university core facility for computational biology and
bioinformatics and part of
Life Science Core Laboratories Center
(CLC).
The primary
mission of the CBSU is to provide
research and computational support for life sciences research and to
implement new computational techniques in bioinformatics.
The CBSU brings advanced
computational tools and techniques to life sciences investigators,
maintains and makes available significant computational
infrastructure dedicated to bioinformatics, and facilitates
biological research by providing core support in bioinformatics.
The facility offers computational biology and bioinformatics
resources and readily accessible advanced computational solutions
with fee-for-services, project design and data analysis
consultation, and with collaborative research with investigators.
The facility provides informatics analysis pipelines for the
data generated by the various CLC facilities (e.g., for
next generation sequencing analysis).
The CBSU also provides support for large scale
multidisciplinary research projects in close collaboration with the
genomics, proteomics, imaging and bio-IT facilities of the CLC.
We collaborate on research projects that require expertise in
genomics, proteomics, quantitative genetics and structural biology, and can assist in the design and implementation
of computational solutions. We also have expertise in software and database development.
More about our mission and collaborations can be found
here.
To facilitate access to our computational resources the CBSU developed a
Computational Biology Applications Suite for High Performance Computing (BioHPC), which addresses the challenges of working with life sciences applications in the HPC environment at the individual user level as well as at the research group or administrator/developer level.
BioHPC is available for download as an open source application, you
can also access our local installation at Cornell:
BioHPC@CBSU.
CBSU was funded in 2001 and throughout its
history served bioinformatics needs of Cornell groups as well as
Tri-Institution groups in New York. CBSU always collaborated
closely with
Microsoft, CBSU is a partner of Microsoft Biology Initiative
program and charter member of Microsoft High Performance Computing
Institutes program.
