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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.

An important part of CBSU mission is education. We organize various bioinformatics related workshops helping biologists to plan and carry out computations themselves. The workshops cover a broad range of topics from introduction to Linux computing environment to next generation sequencing applications.

To facilitate access to our computational resources the CBSU developed a Computational Biology Applications Suite for High Performance Computing (BioHPC), which allows Cornell researches to access CBSU High-Performance Computing via a web interface and run over 52 bioinformatics applications on the computer clusters. To provide interactive computing environment CBSU set up BioHPC Laboratory, which is a cloud-like computing resource composed of over 42 workstations configured for computational biology applications.

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.

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