Background
The Bioinformatics Core Facility consists of both Bioinformatics Scientist-staff and Bioinformatics Programmer-staff. Its mission is to collaboratively assist NINDS research staff with Bioinformatics-related projects as needed.
Staff
Bioinformatics Scientists:
Bioinformatic Application Developers:
Amar Yavatkar (Lead)
Dong Park
Srujan Ganta
Image
Contact Information
If you should need Bioinformatics-related assistance per your research, certainly contact us today, we are here for you:
- Bioinformatics Core Committee Chair: Edward Giniger, Ph.D (Edward.Giniger@nih.gov)
- Bioinformatics Core Director and Scientist Staff Contact: Kory R. Johnson, Ph.D (Kory.Johnson@nih.gov)
- Bioinformatics Core Application Development Staff Contact: Amar Yavatkar (Amarendra.Yavatkar@nih.gov)
Scope of the Facility
Examples of Bioinformatics-related projects the Core’s scientific staff can assist with:
- Experiment design
- Microarray Analysis (one-color, two-color)
- Next Generation Sequence Analysis (e.g., bulk RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, DNA-Seq, scRNA-Seq, TCR-Seq)
- Protein Analysis (structure prediction, mass spectrometry-based analysis)
- RNA Analysis (structure prediction, function classification, target prediction)
- Sequence Analysis (e.g., pair-wise, multiple-alignment, phylogenetics, gene prediction, comparative genomics)
- Ad-hoc Statistical Analysis (Descriptive, Correlation-based, Comparison Testing, Classification Modeling)
Examples of Bioinformatics-related projects the Core's programming staff can assist with:
- Application design, development, & maintenance
- Database design, development, & maintenance
- Dashboard design, development, & maintenance
- Systems design, development, & maintenance
In addition to providing both Bioinformatics Scientist and Bioinformatics Programmer assistance to NINDS research staff, the Core staff also serves as mentors in the NIH Summer Internship Program each year.