The Bioinformatics Core Facility offers algorithmic and customized mega-data services, database management and software development. It represents an important asset for analysis of the data generated by the different research groups and serves as technological support for other core facilities.
Closely linked to the Genomics Core Facility, it includes all next-generation sequencing analysis, such as assembly of reference-genome or de-novo resequencing of data, transcriptome or exome-capture data, differential expression analysis or mutation detection.
The core facility also closely collaborates on work carried out in proteomics, computational chemistry, high-throughput screening, and in vivo biology. It also offers personalized training on various themes related to programming and data analysis.
Services offered:
- Analysis of data (massive or not)
- Software development
- Design, implementation and maintenance of databases and user interfaces
- Statistical analysis
- Algorithm automation and parallelization
Equipment
Computing cluster
- CPU computing nodes totaling 1,500 cores and 10 TB of memory
- Total capacity of 50 GPUs
- 10 Gbit interconnects
Storage space
- SAN storage units with a capacity of 1,800 TB
- Dedicated database servers
- Data protection using an automated backup unit with a capacity of over 2,600 TB
Hosting
- A server cluster hosting more than 100 virtual machines for applications and computing
Software Developed
Selected Achievements
– Animal colony management software: https://vivarium.umontreal.ca
– Scientific equipment management, booking, and billing software: https://gps.iric.ca
– AML Leucegene cohort database: https://data.leucegene.iric.ca
– Genomics Platform portal: https://genomique.iric.ca
– Student recruitment management portal: https://aa.iric.ca