Bioinformatics Core Facility was established in early 2007. The facility has two robust, high-availability clusters as the basis for high performance computation in which one is the linux cluster with 8-nodes, and another is the Mac cluster consisting of 12 Mac Xserve servers. With this high performance computation hardware, the facility is able to provide bioinformatics services using the software tools based on statistics, mathematics and data mining theory for a wide range of biological research applications such as gene and protein sequence analysis, microarray analysis and phylogenetic analysis. The facility also provides bioinformatics consultations and education services to the institute.

Committee members:

1. Dr. Shih-Long Tu
2. Dr. Wolfgang Schmidt
3. Dr. Shu-Hsing Wu
4. Dr. Erh-Min Lai
5. Dr. Yue-Ie Hsing

1. Dr. Bill Chia-Han Chang

Research Assistants:

1. Ming-Hsin An ( Peter )
2. Chao-Yu Pan ( Slash )

1. Linux PC Cluster ( 8-nodes )
2. Apple Xserve Cluster ( 12-nodes )

1. MPIBLAST (parallel computing)
2. CLUSTAL-MPI (parallel computing)
3. HMMER-PVM (parallel computing)
4. PHYLIP
5. CLUSTALW
6. T-COFFEE
7. GLIMMER
8. EMBOSS
9. PyMol