organisation - the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

PORTUGUESE
BIOINFORMATICS
CENTRE
Pedro Fernandes (Eng) Head
PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 2001
Head of Facility since 2005
link to facility website
Head of IGC Gulbenkian Training Programme
in Bioinformatics (GTPB)
The CPB-RAP was created in 2005. It hosts Hermes, a mid size cluster that is
dedicated to Bioinformatics. Access to this cluster is free but users need an
account. This is a high performance platform, therefore more suitable for heavy
computations than for trivial jobs. To make good use of this machine, applications
usually require deep modifications to allow for the use of the parallel
processing capabilities. Most of the machine load is taken by lengthy simulation
jobs for Population Genetics and by occasional orthologue searches using multiple
BLAST jobs with pen domain software like InParanoid.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE
Talks for students, IGC, May, June
MAJOR PROJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Assigning multi-site genotypes to their subpopulations;
• PAS, a new data-mining method that flags statistically significant intercolumnar
non-randomness of any complexity;
• MultiLocus Sequence Typing using eBURST goeBURST and new methods;
• MTBSS - Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Bioinformatic and Structural Strategies
Towards Treatment - New Indigo - ERANET - Official start Sept 2010.
EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• IBM JS20 Blade computer (60), and associated control, management and
storage.
Funding Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
IGC ANNUAL REPORT ‘11
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