Ottawa Bioinformatics Core Facility

Overview

A Core Facility of the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, we provide advice on bioinformatics research design, conduct bioinformatics analysis and provide support for grant proposals that involve bioinformatics (conducting pilot studies, support/collaboration letters and methodological text). 

Services

Our areas of expertise include:

• Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data; single cell (Chromium 10x), RNA-seq (including small RNA), ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C.
• Large scale analysis integrating multiple data types. 

We have experience with many other types of bioinformatics, and/or can refer you to other local exports, depending on your needs. We can also help to arrange for the analysis of your biological samples with local core facilities such as StemCore, the Proteomics Resource Center, or the OHRI Mass Spectrometry Core Facility.

We provide yearly training courses in RNA-seq analysis, Bioinformatics analysis using R, and ATAC-seq as well as individual training and analysis support on request. We maintain a document containing a summary of our sequencing experiment recommendations for client use.  

Success stories

The Ottawa Bioinformatics Core Facility is proud to have played a role in many key discoveries at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa. Selected success stories are profiled below.