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| 4 | + |
| 5 | +# Introduction |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +## Mission |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +The Bioinformatics Research Platform is part of the [Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP)](https://www.mpusp.mpg.de/). |
| 10 | +Our platform specializes in handling and analysis of data from microbial genomics, transcriptomics and other high-throughput experiments. |
| 11 | +Our main objective is the support of all members of MPUSP as well as our collaborators with state-of-the-art tools, workflows, and custom data analyses. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## Members |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +- For a list of actively contributing members, visit our [front page](/). |
| 16 | +- All platform members specialize in different fields of computational microbiology, data science, structural biology, and other topics, creating a diverse skill set |
| 17 | +- Former members of the platform (in chronological order): Dr Davide Chiarugi, Dr Eric Galvez, Timothy Sullivan, and Tristan Kast. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +## Core competences |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- Data acquisition: study and experimental design, analysis strategies, data transfer and stoprage |
| 22 | +- Data quality control (QC): We provide our institute and the public with a range of [data processing workflows](/workflows), all of them featuring rich quality control (QC) functions |
| 23 | +- Data analysis and visualization: One of our most important tasks; We handle primarily short and long read sequencing data for all types of genomics and transcriptomics. Many of our workflows are specially suited for microbial data. |
| 24 | +- Data deposition and sharing: We strive to annotate and deposit all relevant biological data on free and publicly accessible platforms, such as ENA (European Nucleotide Archive) or NCBI's SRA service. |
| 25 | +- Reproducible workflows: We deposit all of our scientific tools and workflows on (https://github.com/MPUSP), with a growing number of repositories being public and freely available under the MIT license. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +## Resources |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +We maintain hardware and computational resources that are made available to members and collaborators. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +- In-house CPU-based compute and file servers for data processing |
| 32 | +- GPU servers provided by the [GWDG](https://gwdg.de/en/hpc/systems/scc/), a partner institution of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 33 | +- Possiblity of Oxford-Nanopore sequencing on an in-house instrument |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +:::tip Get in touch! |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +If your interested in our work, or our portfolio of services, don't hesitate to get in touch. Write to [email protected] |
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