Foundry | Training | Support
The Bioinformatics Core facility created Foundry, a software platform to support analyses of high throughput data. Foundry supports the full research cycle by allowing clients to track samples from sample collection to data processing (sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics) and finally to interactive analysis using an intuitive web interface. Foundry is built to ensure secure access to the processed data using 3rd party applications for tailor-made analysis and data sharing. Foundry platform has been licensed to Via Scientific who maintains, provides support for and further develops the platform and pipelines within.
In addition to granting access to Foundry and its routine data analysis pipelines, the core facility provides hands-on training in data analysis and Foundry usage. For details, please see our training page here.
The core will facilitate the development of new functionality (e.g. new pipelines or modifications) and/or end-to-end data analysis by Via Scientific when needed. Please see our fees page for details here.
Our Mission
The Bioinformatics Core mission is two-fold:
1) To evaluate, select, and implement when needed the best of breed computational solutions for the analysis of biological data.
2) To allow those who generate the data to be able to analyze it using state of the art methods by reducing the computational expertise required to apply these methods.
Biocore News
January 2023
UMASS Chan Medical School licenses data processing and analysis technology to Via Scientific
April 2020
Published
DolphinNext: a distributed data processing platform for high throughput genomics