We carry out our own research programmes, from crops, to biodiversity, to AI. We have significant infrastructure to support our research, and also support the UK life science community by providing access to services, tools and compute resources for both technical and non-technical users.
Our data scientists specialise in developing bioinformatics services and information systems for data and software distribution, data sharing, and cloud computing.
We focus on building virtual computing and software infrastructure to best manage, represent and integrate data for sharing.
We provide:
- Data services and data infrastructure critical for large scale cross-institute projects, such as Designing Future Wheat and the Darwin Tree of Life
- Key compute resources, including virtual machines, via Cyverse UK
- Access to High Performance Computing (HPC) systems
- A Galaxy instance, an open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research
- Streamlined bioinformatics workflows and pipelines through virtualised software catalogues and CyVerse apps
- Collaboration and networking effort to major international projects such as ELIXIR
- HPC expertise and training to support the local economy and bridge the digital skills gap
- Alleviation of bottlenecks and pain points by providing specific services, such as the COPO data brokering platform to help researchers get their data into public repositories
- Performance and scalability through an industry standard virtualisation platform
