Research Group in Bioinformatics

Biological research at AWI in the field of biodiversity, biomineralisation, temparature adaptation and others is becoming more and more involved with the use of biological information systems such as genome and proteome databases combined with several tools for information query, management and mapping. The research group in Bioinformatics, as part of the scientific computing group of AWI's computing center, was established in 2004 as a facility to provide services requiring bioinformatics and data analysis background. The group provides access to databases and develops new algorithms and integrated software for the use in scientific environments such as the molecular genetics laboratories in house. In co-operation with Hochschule Bremerhaven and others, students are able to work in the field of algorithmics and software development, participating in scientific projects at AWI.
The group also provides technical support and infrastructure for the hosting of databases and applications running on compute systems such as high-performance Linux-clusters installed at the computing center.