Welcome to the Penn Bioinformatics Core
The Penn Bioinformatics Core was formed jointly by the Penn Center for Bioinformatics (PCBI) and the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI) in order to provide compute resources, support and training to the University of Pennsylvania basic and biomedical research community. Our goal is to ensure that these scientists across the University are able to effectively exploit existing and emerging computational technologies, especially related to genomics scale datasets.
These pages outline in more detail our mission and the services that we provide as we attempt to fulfill that mission. If you have any questions or are just wondering if we may be able to help you, please contact us via email (bioinfocore@pcbi.upenn.edu) or by calling one of the persons listed on the people page.
If you are not receiving email announcements from PBiC about workshops and news and would like to do so, please subscribe to our PBiC email list. We send email once or twice a month announcing upcoming workshops, new services, relevant seminars, etc. to keep the Penn Community abreast of what is happening in the Penn Bioinformatics Core.
John Tobias, Interim Director
Penn Bioinformatics Core
News:
June 11, 2008: PBiC is pleased to offer Partek Genomics Suite for in-lab use on a subscription basis. Please see details here. Conact us (bioinfocore@pcbi.upenn.edu) for additional information.
February 28, 2008: The iNquiry service is down for cluster operating system maintenance. Plans have not been finalized to update these tools to run with the new operating system. Please contact the core (bioinfocore@pcbi.upenn.edu) to identify alternate resources for any iNquiry features.
September 1, 2007: PBiC is implementing a fee structure to increase cost recovery. The new fees continue to be subsidized by the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute. Please see details here.
February 1, 2006: We have added Lasergene (from DNAStar) to our sequence tools subscription. The subscription now includes Lasergene (mac/win), MacVector (mac), DSDene (win), and Sequencher (mac/win). Please see the desktop sequence analysis tools page for more information.
October 11, 2005: InVitrogen just announced that the VectorNTI suite of software tools is now available to academic researchers at no charge. Despite the integration of this software with their marketing efforts, for those labs not requiring support may find this a good solution. Go to their User Community web pages for more information and to download the software.