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Introduction

Mission​

The Bioinformatics Research Platform is part of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP). Our platform specializes in handling and analysis of data from microbial genomics, transcriptomics and other high-throughput experiments. 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.

Members​

  • For a list of actively contributing members, visit our front page.
  • All platform members specialize in different fields of computational microbiology, data science, structural biology, and other topics, creating a diverse skill set
  • Former members of the platform (in chronological order): Dr Davide Chiarugi, Dr Eric Galvez, Timothy Sullivan, and Tristan Kast.

Core competences​

  • Data acquisition: study and experimental design, analysis strategies, data transfer and stoprage
  • Data quality control (QC): We provide our institute and the public with a range of data processing workflows, all of them featuring rich quality control (QC) functions
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Resources​

We maintain hardware and computational resources that are made available to members and collaborators.

  • In-house CPU-based compute and file servers for data processing
  • GPU servers provided by the GWDG, a partner institution of the Max-Planck-Society
  • Possiblity of Oxford-Nanopore sequencing on an in-house instrument
Get in touch!

If your interested in our work, or our portfolio of services, don't hesitate to get in touch. Write to bioinformatics@mpusp.mpg.de