Bioinformatics

An innovative new Research Centre to identify novel enzymatic solutions to environmental waste problems such as plastic

On Friday 7th June, the Mary Rose Museum in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard hosted the inaugural meeting of the Portsmouth Heritage Hub (PHH). The workshop aimed to bring together around 30 researchers from the University of Portsmouth with interests and expertise in the heritage field, with members of 15 organisations associated with local historical artefacts, architecture and monuments in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. It was a fantastic opportunity to foster collaborative research networks between people with the skills and expertise to solve problems, with stakeholders in our history with problems to solve.

Welcome to the University of Portsmouth Bioinformatics Group website. I set up this group having recently moved from the University of Cambridge, and hope to develop the group further over the coming years. I am going to aim to post regularly on this blog with posts relating to data analysis, experimental design, advances in sequencing technology, and other related matters that may be of interest to visitors. I have kicked things off with a tutorial for those of you that are interested in learning how to use the statistical programming language R.

A list of commercial and academic sequencing facilities used by members of the faculty

A list of commonly used tools for bioinformatics analyses

We are currently working on a number of in-house bioinformatics tools to make these available to the wider research community