Informatics

Informatics Group PhotoComputer Systems and Data Analysis 

A genome center is not complete without the ability to track, manage and analyze very large data sets. At the genome center we use computers for several important tasks:

  • All of our experiments are queued through the computer systems and tracked through the laboratories by computers scanning bar codes attached to the experimental projects.
  • The main servers store terabytes of sequence and assembly data that we use to produce genome sequences.
  • All of the data analysis is done using computer assistance and computational algorithms so that we are able to accomplish our scientific goals.
  • In addition to our main data servers, we also utilize cluster computing to speed up and parallelize data analysis tasks and routine computation.