<strong>Scientific Supervisor</strong>: Sara González Bodí
Scientific Supervisor: Sara González Bodí
<strong>Service Manager</strong>: David Carrasco Gata
Service Manager: David Carrasco Gata
The bioinformatic analysis of high-throughput sequencing data is essential for most genomic projects. Although many of the required methods and protocols are considered standard, their use depends on the computational capacity available to each research group, as well as on the availability of qualified personnel capable of managing high‑performance computing infrastructures.

In this context, the Bioinformatics Support Unit (BSU) of the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP UPM‑INIA), as part of the Computational/Systems Biology Programme (CsBGP) within the CBGP’s Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence strategic plan, was established to meet the high demand for processing and analysing omics data, mainly from next‑generation sequencing (NGS) platforms.

Contact: david.carrasco@inia.csic.es

Its main objectives are

  1. To provide a comprehensive service for the processing, computational analysis, and interpretation of genomic data.
  2. To oversee and manage the use of the high‑performance computing (HPC) cluster and the data storage system.
Service Portfolio
With the aim of providing bioinformatics support to CBGP members, companies participating in the KAIROS‑UPM project consortium, other companies in the Community of Madrid, and external users, the following services are offered:

Basic Services
  1. Creation of accounts and job configuration on the HPC cluster
  2. General assistance with NGS data analysis

Bioinformatics Analysis Services
1. Quality control and mapping of sequenced reads
2. Detection of genetic variants and genotyping
3. Transcriptome analysis
4. Structural variant (SV) analysis
5. Copy number variation (CNV) analysis
6. De novo assembly and annotation
7. Epigenetic analysis (ChIP‑seq)
8. DNA methylation analysis (Bisulfite Sequencing)
9. Metagenomics (functional and taxonomic profiling)
10. Metabarcoding (taxonomic profiling)
11. Phylogenetic reconstruction
12. Functional annotation of genomic sequences
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