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 <h1>Babraham Bioinformatics</h1>
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<b>Location:</b>  
<br>Just outside Cambridge, UK.<br>
<b>Name/Title: [mailto:simon.andrews@bbsrc.ac.uk Simon Andrews]</b>
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<b>Links:</b>  
<br>[http://www.bioinformatics.bbsrc.ac.uk Babraham Bioinformatics Public site]<br>
<br>[http://www.babraham.ac.uk Babraham Institute Site]<br>
<b>Group size:</b>  
<br>4 permanent staff.  3 bioinformaticians and 1 statistician.<br>
<b>Environment:</b> 
<br>The Babraham Insitute is a government funded academic research institute.  We have around 400 research scientists in around 10 major laboratories.<br>
<b>Tools:</b> 
<br>We support a wide variety of tools in all areas of bioinformatics.  We are a mixed computing environment so most things we support are cross platform.  Where possible we use existing tools but we develop our own where necessary.<br>
<b>Pertinent hardware info:</b> 
<br>We have 6 main servers, all running linux.  These provide many different bioinformatics and database services both to the group and to the scientisits on site.<br>
<b>Training:</b> 
<br>We offer a full training programme to our scientists.  All courses are short (half day or less) and are written and presented in house.  Our current course list is:<br>
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<li>Sequence analysis with VectorNTI</li>
<li>Effective database searching</li>
<li>Exploring Ensembl</li>
<li>Making use of comparative genomics</li>
<li>Running and analysing microarray experiments</li>
<li>Sequence assembly using Staden</li>
<li>Statistical analysis using SPSS</li>
<li>Using the bioinformatics tools at NCBI</li>
<li>Viewing protein 3D structures using Deep View</li>
<li>Learning to program with Perl (8 week course)</li>
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<b>Bioinformatics support model:</b> 
<br>We are an open door service available to all researchers on site.<br>
<b>Funding model:</b>
<br>We are self-supporting via chargebacks to our users<br>
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