Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the application of computational techniques and information theory to the field of biology. It is inherently cross-disciplinary, involving expertise, skills and input from biologists, software engineers, IT systems specialists, statisticians and mathematicians. High throughput experimental design requirements, the rapidly growing publicly available biological databases, and the introduction of many new massively parallel nucleotide sequencing instruments are necessitating the further adoption of bioinformatic approaches for all biologists. Critically, as bioinformatics is still a relatively new and evolving discipline, expertise is required to provide the most sensitive, transparent and reliable data analysis and management methodologies for each experiment.
QFAB has built a core team with skills across each of the main disciplines of bioinformatics. In any given project, the right combination of team members with applied skills work together to tailor a solution specific to the project requirements. In this way, QFAB can support research projects involving everything from large scale public biological data management and data mining, high-throughput instrument-specific data analysis, self contained bio-statistical data set analysis, consulting on appropriate application of algorithmic methodologies and explanation of tools and technologies. Some of the recent bioinformatic projects in which QFAB has participated are listed below.
