Qualified members of the Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG) can perform standardized analyses for a minimal fee. Each pipeline is a "best practices" implementation of commonly cited, open-source tools and techniques appropriate to the data provided and questions asked. These pipelines may be similar to the self-service pipelines maintained by the BioITeam, but by having one of our Consultants run the pipeline The Bioinformatics group offers support to researchers within UT and outside to assist with management and analysis of large scale data. We use "best practices" highly cited open source tools as well as tools developed within our group for our data analysis.
By having one of our Consultants perform data analysis, you can be assured that:
- Data quality will be interpreted by experienced bioinformaticians
- Any errors in the pipeline will be addressed by experts
- Parameters will be adjusted appropriately (and with your input if necessary)
- Additional training and/or interpretation can be provided in the context of your project (at additional cost)
- Pipelines may be customized or extended as required for a particular project (at additional cost)
Some of the typical services we are capable of offering are listed below. But, please contact us if you do not see something that resembles your particular project. We offer estimates of time and cost wherever it is appropriate, but times and cost can vary based upon level of detail required and specifics of your project. All costs are based on currently approved Service Center rates and the actual amount of labor required for the project. Projects are billed when complete or monthly, whichever comes first. A minimum of four hours of time is assumed for each pipelineproject. Larger datasets, more complicated experimental designs, or additional interpretation and/or training time can be easily accommodated.
Full service pipelines available
- Benchmarking of tools/pipelines:
- DNA-Seq
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- variant calling pipeline: Identification and annotation of SNPs and/or somatic mutations compared to reference genome. 10 hour minimum ($730 internal, $930 external) per project.
- RNA-Seq
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- analysis pipeline: This pipeline uses an annotated genome/transcriptome to identify differential expressed genes/transcripts.
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- 15 hour minimum (
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- $1095 internal,
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- $1395 external) per project.
- RNA-Seq
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- for non-model organisms:
- Network/Co-expression analysis:
- ChIP-Seq peak calling pipeline: This pipeline identifies regions of significant protein binding ("peaks") based on an annotated genome.
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- 10 hour minimum (
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- $730 internal, $930 external) per project.
- Transcriptome
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- assembly: Assembly of RNA-seq short reads into a transcriptome. 12 hour minimum ($876 internal, $1116 external) per project.
- Genome assembly:
- Data visualization:
- Promoter analysis:
- Statistical analysis/Biostatistics problems:
- 16s Sequencing using QIIME:
- Application development/Optimization of pipelines to run on HPC environments:
- ddRAD analysis:
Rates
Internal customers (payment from a UT Austin account): $73/hour
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