What We Do
The Bioinformatics Core Facility [RRID:SCR_009937] supports researchers working with high-throughput biological or omics data, often derived from next-generation sequencing experiements. The facility provides three general tiers of support:
Consultation
Expert guidance at every stage of your project - before data collection and after analysis is complete.
- Experimental design and power analysis
- Sequencing platform and library prep selection
- Statistical approach and pipeline planning
Analysis
End-to-end bioinformatics pipeline execution using established and novel workflows.
- Quality control and pre-processing
- Reference-based and de novo assembly
- Differential abundance and expression analysis
- Pathway enrichment and functional annotation
- Custom pipeline development for novel data types
- Accessioned data submission to public repositories
- Data storage and backup
Data Presentation
Publication-quality figures, tables, and reproducible code.
- Manuscript-ready figures (R/Python)
- Methods/results text and citation support
- Code annotation, documentation, and repository archiving - including PI/investigative team as contributor
- Supplementary data formatting
Who We Serve
The Core is open to all MSU researchers, external academics, and industrial customers who plan to generate or work with high-throughput biological datasets, including:
- Any lab personnel including undergraduates and graduate students with analysis support and training
- Principal Investigators with pipeline execution and manuscript preparation
- Grant applicants with bioinformatics design and budget justification
- Industry partners with target identification/validation
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgment of core facility services and instruments supported by Montana State University is required in publications as it is a key performance indicator of our research activity and we are required to report publication output to our funding agencies. Learn more about how to acknowledge the Bioinformatics Core Facility in your publication here.
Please report any recent publications to us by sending your DOI or a PDF using the link below: