Informatics
The UMGC Informatics Group provides bioinformatic analysis and data management services for the Genomics Center and its clients. Areas of expertise include Illumina short-read sequencing, PacBio long-read sequencing, Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), 10x Genomics, microbiome and metagenomics, and RNA-Seq.
People
John Garbe, PhD – Informatics Group Lead
Trina Kuriger-Laber, MSc – Bioinformatics Analyst
Juan Abrahante, PhD – MSI Analyst & Consultant
Service Areas
NGS Data Analysis
We provide a variety of data analysis services to both internal and external clients with UMN researchers receiving no cost analysis for certain services. Please contact the service manager for more information.
- Illumina Basic QC Analysis
- 10x Genomics Analysis (Cellranger, Spaceranger)
- Nanostring GeoMX QC Analysis
- PacBio SMRTlink Analysis
- PacBio bacterial genome assembly
- Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) data analysis
- 16s/18s/ITS1 microbiome marker gene data analysis
- Shallow shotgun metagenomics analysis
- Human germline whole-genome and whole-exome variant calling
- RNA-Seq QC Analysis
- SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing data analysis
Data access and download support
We can help you with any problems you encounter accessing or downloading your data from the Genomics Center. We also maintain an extensive archive of customer data – let us know if you have lost or misplaced a dataset as we may be able to track down your data or re-deliver it.
Internal data download instructions can be found here.
External data download instructions can be found here.
Other UMN bioinformatic service providers
The Research Informatics group at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) provides bioinformatics research support including project planning, data analysis, and pipeline development. Contact information is available on their website.