Services and Consultancy
I have generated sequencing data. What next?
Sequencing techniques are being used by researchers working in all kinds of different fields to answer very different questions. However, it is not always clear to every scientist what their data can be used for. The Centre for Functional Genomics provides three different kinds of services to help.
Project Planning
Often scientists are unsure how they can use sequencing technologies to help them answer their specific question. We can help with project design and planning, especially for next generation sequencing projects (e.g. RNAseq or ChIP-seq). This should be done as early in the project planning as possible, since a successful grant application depends on a convincing research strategy.
Data Analysis
In cases where scientists have already generated sequencing data but have no trained personnel to analyse them, we can provide this service. Also the re-analysis of published datasets for a different purpose or the comparison of different datasets can be done. We offer to either analyse datsets ourselves or to train other researchers in data analysis in a one-to-one fashion.
Computational Support
The analysis of large datasets requires high computational power in order to be fast and efficient.We have high spec computers in the Centre that can be used also remotely by other researchers at Oxford Brookes University to conduct genomics data analysis.