Bioinformatics and Programming Walk-in Clinics
Bioinformatics Walk-in Clinics
Monday, 11am - 1pm
ZRC CyberLibrary Team Room (left on entering the lobby from E. 69th St.)
Programming Walk-in Clinics
Tuesday, 2pm - 4pm
ZRC CyberLibrary Team Room (left on entering the lobby from E. 69th St.)
Bioinformatics Walk-in Clinics
Wednesday, 2pm - 4pm
RRL Medical Library Team Room (left on entering the lobby from E. 67th St.)
For more information or immediate questions, please contact Alex Lash or review BIC personnel contact information.
Consultation
Members from the Bioinformatics Core provide consultation services (both large and small) on a variety of topics including: protein and nucleotide sequence analysis, including sequence trace assembly and mutation detection, microarray data analysis, functional analysis of high throughput data, and data organization, representation and sharing. Core members have participated in numerous internal and external proposals. Consultations are provided to MSKCC investigators at a cost of $75/hour for any work exceeding an hour. Cost estimates are given before work is started.
Review of Analysis Methods and Results
As part of core fee-based consultation services, we also review bioinformatics analysis methods and results.
Training
Hands-on practical workshops on various bioinformatics and genomics topics are provided in collaboration with Cornell, Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Genomics Core Lab and Cornell-Weill's Microarray Facility. These workshops are offered to all tri-institutional faculty, staff and students.
Institutional Resource Development
Core personnel have developed databases and Web tools for the benefit of the entire Memorial Sloan-Kettering research community. Examples include a multi-institutional study tracker (in collaboration with the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Program Project and Office of Clinical Research), a de-identified database of pathology diagnostic reports (in collaboration with Department of Pathology), a tissue microarray database (in collaboration with Pathology Core), a gene expression and CGH microarray normalization and analysis pipeline (in collaboration with the Genomics Core Lab), a high-throughput mutation detection pipeline (in collaboration with the Beene Translational Oncology Core) and various online sequence and microarray analysis tools (in collaboration with numerous Memorial Sloan-Kettering investigators).
High Performance Computing
Core personnel configure, maintain and administer high performance computing resources for the Computational Biology Center.
Support
The Bioinformatics Core is supported, in part, by a generous grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. In addition, it is supported by MSKCC institutional funding sources, including the Tri-Institutional Research Program, and the NCI Cancer Centers Program. The Bioinformatics Core also participates in the development and adoption of NCI's Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and is a participant in the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Program Project (PI: Sam Singer), the MSKCC Cancer Genome Characterization Center Grant (PI: Marc Ladanyi) the MSKCC Clinical Proteomic Technology Center (PI: Paul Tempst), the Lung Adenocarcinoma Program Project (PI: Mark Kris), and the WMC-MSKCC Clinical Translational Science Center (PI: Julianne Imperator-McGinley).
