Bioinformatics Core

The Bioinformatics Core at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center is one of central laboratories for faculty and their groups. It also provides a service to local research community.

The Core has recently designed and constructed a 16 nodes dual AMD Athlon cluster (Quardon) as its powerhorse for database search and biocomputing. With a growing number of tools and databases provided through this new-built infrastructure, the Core brings the capabilities of in-house BLAST, exon finding, SNP databases, in silico mapping, microarray data warehousing and databases, primer and probe design, and statistical analysis, into SKCC for cancer research. Some of these tools are heavily used by local researchers.

With more and more complicated tools and databases implemented in the system, the Core is strengthening and accelarating cancer studies, drug development, genomics, proteomics, clinical trials, imaging technology development, and other research at SKCC.

The core also supports the Genomics Core in data curation, data analysis, and database applications.