Bioinformatics Facility

Our mission is to provide support on bioinformatics and other computer-assisted tasks to the academic community at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, to the University of Calgary community in general and anybody else that may benefit from our services. 

We offer well-stablished and comprehensive computational pipelines that analyze genomics, metagenomics, and transcriptomics datasets to answer the central question of experiments. Central questions in those type of experiments include: What mutations are associated to the phenotype under study? Which microbes exhibit altered abundance in different environments or under different conditions? Which genes or metabolic pathways are activated or repressed by determined stimuli/treatment?  

Our approach can be defined as ‘consistently supportive’, which means that we are here to support you throughout the whole research process, from grant proposals preparation to experimental design, data analysis, manuscripts preparation, addressing of reviewers’ suggestions, data deposition into appropriate databases, and anything else we could help with.  

In addition to those pipelines, we are always keen to engage in new projects that do not fall into any of those categories yet could be addressed through computer programming. Examples of such projects include determining efficiency of CRISPR-Cas9 cleavage in vitro and in vivo, mapping of retroviruses integrations along genomes, design and implementation of databases, and much more.