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Welcome to the Bioinformatics RESEARCH DOMAIN NUI, Galway

Genome-sequencing projects and functional genomics are two aspects of modern molecular biology that are presenting biologists and biomedical scientists with an unprecedented amount of raw data. The analysis and subsequent synthesis of this raw data into evolving models of the biological systems under scrutiny forms the basis for the rapidly expanding field of bioinformatics and computational biology. It is a multi-disciplinary domain, bringing together biologists who wish to fully take advantage of modern computational methods, and mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists and others who can see a new application for their techniques.

This website is envisaged to be a 'portal' for researchers on the NUI, Galway campus who are actively involved in the development of novel bioinformatics algorithms, or who actively pursue an 'in silico' research programe using bioinformatics tools. At present there are four distinct groups: Stokes Professor of Bioinformatics (Cathal Seoighe), Genome Informatics (Dr. Aaron Golden), Molecular Evolution & Systematics (Dr. Grace McCormack) and Molecular Evolution & Bioinformatics (Dr. Simon Travers). The site also hosts software developed by members of the NUI, Galway bioinformatics community, which is available for download under the usual academic usage licenses.

NUI Galway Researchers invited to collaborate with the Trinity Genome Sequencing Laboratory

Dr. Derek Morris, Dr. Elaine Kenny and Dr. Paul Cormican visited NUI Galway on the 3rd September to outline how researchers on campus could access the Trinity Genome Sequencing Laboratory's Illumina Genome Analyzer II platform. DNA sequencing, RNA sequencing and ChIP-seq capability is now operational, and the TCD group welcome collaborative opportunities with members of the NUI Galway research community. Details of the facility may be found here, and Derek may be mailed directly for further information at morrisdwtcd.ie.

 

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