Computational Biology Unit

The primary aim of the CBU is to conduct competetive bioinformatics research and to expand the interface between bioinformatics and experimental biological and biomedical research.

Six research groups are currently associated with CBU with projects that include sequence and structure analysis, molecular evolution, genome annotation and genomics data analysis. CBU also provides services and contributes to bioinformatics education primarily through training courses.

 

Research

 

 

  • Petersen Group -
    Service group
  • Valen Group -
    Integrated Genomics
  • Fredman Group
    Evolutionary genomics

 

Norwegian Bioinformatics Platform

CBU is responsible for coordination of the activities in the platform, which is a joint effort with partners in Oslo, Trondheim, Tromsø and Ås. Through its Help Desk the platform can assist researchers with bioinformatics analyses and programming tasks.

 

Elixir.no

ELIXIR

 

Funding

CBU receives funding from the FUGE programme, the new Norwegian programme for functional genomics research.

CBU is localised at the Bergen High Technology Centre (HIB) and is a inter-department center at the University of Bergen (UIB). CBU is closely associated with the the Bioinformatics group at the Department of Informatics (II) and has tight links with the Sars Centre for Marine Molecular biology (SARS) and the Department of Molecular Biology (MBI). CBU has a Scientific Advisory Committee that oversees the scientific and strategic plans for CBU.

CBU staff benefits state-­of-­art hardware infrastructure, including a number of compute servers representing and storage servers. In addition CBU is involved in the establishment and management of the national storage infrastructure for bioinformatics through the StoreBioInfo initiative of NORSTORE. Furthermore CBU researchers have access to the high-­performance computing facilities from the national metacenter for computational science (NOTUR).