Babraham Bioinformatics, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge

Babraham Bioinformatics

Location: Just outside Cambridge, UK.
Name/Title: Simon Andrews
Links: Babraham Bioinformatics Public site

Babraham Institute Site
Group size:
4 Permanent Staff. 3 Bioinformaticians and 1 Statistician.
1 Grant Supported Bioinformatician
Environment:
The Babraham Institute is a government funded academic research institute. We have around 400 research scientists in around 10 major laboratories.
Tools:
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.
Pertinent hardware info:
We have 6 main servers, all running linux. These provide many different bioinformatics and database services both to the group and to the scientists on site.
Training:
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:

• Analysing Next-gen Sequencing Data with SeqMonk
• Sequence analysis with VectorNTI
• Effective database searching
• Exploring Ensembl
• Making use of comparative genomics
• Running and analysing microarray experiments
• Sequence assembly using Staden
• Statistical analysis using SPSS
• Using the bioinformatics tools at NCBI
• Viewing protein 3D structures using Deep View
• Learning to program with Perl (8 week course)

Bioinformatics support model:
We are an open door service available to all researchers on site.
Funding model:
We are self-supporting via chargebacks to our users