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Bioinformatics Core

Director: Winston Hide

Core Summary:

The main aim of the Bioinformatics Core at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is to promote collaborations and communications between biostatisticians and both biologists and population scientists in the School in bioinformatics research and applications.

Categories and Institutions:
  • Categories
  • Bioinformatics
  • Institutions
  • Harvard School of Public Health
Personnel/Contact Information:

Director: Winston Hide
Email

Facilities and Equipment:

Major Equipment:

  • Database and data integration software
  • General statistics and data analysis software
  • Genetic Analysis software
  • Linkage disequilibrium mapping software
  • Microarray Analysis software
  • Motif Finding software
  • Sequence manipulation, vector design, and alignment software
  • SNPs haplotype analysis software
  • Systems Biology/Analysis Resources
Services:
  • Collaborate and communicate with other Bioinformatics groups in the Harvard community

  • Coordinate bioinformatics activities within HSPH, and promote communications across different research groups

  • Create an excellent environment for training graduate students choosing Bioinformatics as a research direction

  • Develop major impacts on selected areas in Bioinformatics by collaborating with biological and population researchers and by inventing novel bioinformatics methods, tools, and software programs

  • Provide training on the usages of basic, intermediate, and advanced bioinformatics tools, including websites, databases, and software packages, by short courses, seminars and workshops, or web-based documents


Getting Started:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/bioinfocore/people/
Queries on specific bioinformatics-related questions outside of requests for assistance can be directed to

Departmental Web Link:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/bioinfocore/

Last updated: 2009-02-03T22:53:00Z