Research FacilitiesComputing Services

The facility provides the IT infrastructure to support state-of-the art scientific equipment and research, high performance computing facilities, an IT helpdesk and will also provide bioinformatics and informatics support in the near future.

Computing Support Services

• A professional helpdesk providing desktop support to Windows, Linux & Mac PCs.
• High performance computer clusters providing parallel computing facilities for intensive image processing, statistical and genomic sequence analysis.
• Fast network and internet access within the CSC and to Imperial College computational facilities such as the London e-Science Centre.
• Specialist computing solutions to support scientific equipment and research activities.
• Extensive backup and archiving service.

Bioinformatics & Informatics

• Bioinformatics advice and assistance for data analysis across the CSC research sections; encompassing support for genomic, proteomic and epigenetic data.
• Informatics support for the development of biological databases and software applications.
• Support for high performance computing and algorithm development.
• Providing and co-ordinating CSC bioinformatics resources for researchers.
• Training and support for data analysis, bioinformatics software, packages and databases.
• Resources for Next Generation Sequencing Analysis

Bioinformatics Research Support

• Gopu Dharmalingam (Epigenetics Section)
  gopuraja.dharmalingam@csc.mrc.ac.uk
• Sanjay Khadayate (Genes & Metabolism Section)
  sanjay.khadayate@csc.mrc.ac.uk