Bioinformatics Consulting Core

Warren Kibbe, Director 
312-503-3229
wakibbe@northwestern.edu

http://bcwiki.bioinformatics.northwestern.edu/bcwiki/index.php/Main_Page

Mission Statement

The Bioinformatics Core Facility provides analysis, support and design for next generation sequencing, microarrays, proteomics, clinical trial informatics as well as custom web-based database development for basic science and clinical projects. The goal is to provide Feinberg researchers with in-house expertise of bioinformatics in order to produce studies that ultimately result in publications and grants.

Services Offered

• Providing clinical trial informatics support (NOTIS, caBIGTM) and clinical informatics (Prostate, Ovarian, Breast)
• Providing advanced analysis and data management of next generation sequencing, microarray and proteomic data
• Interpreting gene lists in the context of pathways and diseases
• Providing meta-analysis of microarray data using OncoMine
• Providing pathway analysis using Ingenuity
• Conducting the hands-on CAMDA workshop on analyzing massive genomics data, including next generation sequencing, microarrays and proteomics
• Developing, maintaining, updating, and distributing software libraries in the Bioconductor package for Illumina data analysis (Lumi, an NU initiative)
• Developing, maintaining, updating, and distributing software libraries in the Bioconductor package for disease ontology analysis (FunDO, an NU initiative)
• Developing, maintaining, updating, and distributing software libraries in the Bioconductor package for biological network analysis (GeneAnswers, an NU initiative)
• Data mining and integrating with public and data resources, including Gene Ontology, Disease Ontology (an NU initiative), Bioconductor, caBIG®
• Providing tissue banking informatics (caBIG® tools)
• Providing model organism database informatics
• Providing imaging data management, some analysis
• Providing life science focused web-database development
• Providing secure server management, data management and architecture design services
• Consulting on experiment design and planning (one hour initial consultation free of charge)
• Preparing grants and manuscripts

Acknowledgement

ALL MANUSCRIPTS AND GRANTS PRESENTING WORK SUPPORTED BY THIS CORE SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work was supported by the Northwestern University Bioinformatics Consulting Core, a Cancer Center Support Grant (NCI CA060553), and a grant from the National Center for Research Resources (UL1 RR025741).

Location and Contacts

Rubloff Building, 11th Floor, Room 174
750 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL  60611

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Research Office
Chicago, IL 60611
fsm-research@northwestern.edu
(312) 503-1499 Main
(312) 503-5603 Fax

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