SITE SEARCH

The Bioinformatics Core provides informatics services for research on the Washington University campus and anyone interested in using its services. Our mission is:

• To develop an informatics center that will allow clinical and basic science investigators to collect and manage large amounts of gene expression, gene sequence, and coded clinical data generated from cancer research studies.
  
  
• To develop web-based data mining and analysis tools that will allow investigators to generate and validate new hypotheses based on the integration of collected genomic and clinical data sets.
  
  
• To provide a center for publicly accessible data resources, tools, references, and protocols that will assist investigators in applying genomics to basic, translational, and clinical cancer research.
  
  
• To provide a publicly accessible venue for "publishing" experimental findings and corresponding data sets generated from investigator-based studies.

The Bioinformatics Core is a full service facility which is directed by Dr. Rakesh Nagarajan and Dr. Jeffrey Milbrandt. It is staffed by Sunita Koul, Nisha Thomas, Deepak Kapur and an offshore team of about 10 software developers. The Bioinformatics Core is located in Room 8856 of the Clinical Sciences Research Building. We have written a software application called Function Express for the analysis of microarray data. This application is available for use by all Washington University investigators. We are also in the process of writing such applications for the analysis of mutation and proteomic profiling and will make them available for use after development and testing.

For questions and specific consultation issues, please contact help@mga.wustl.edu.

For more information, please visit the Bioinformatics web site.