About the Elixir-Norway Bioinformatics infrastructure

The ELIXIR-Norway bioinformatics infrastructure is a joint project hosted by five partner organisations: the University of Bergen, the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the University of Tromsø and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås.

The platform is coordinated from the Computational Biology Unit at the University of Bergen.

The infrastructure develops solutions for the analysis, storage, organisation or visualisation of biological and medical data (see Applications).

In particular, ELIXIR-Norway offers assistance and consulting services in bioinformatics to Norwegian researchers (see Help desk). Education in bioinformatics is another goal of ELIXIR-Norway which organises courses at the PhD and postdoctoral levels (see Training). All services are research-based, thus ensuring that state-of-the-art solutions will be used to solve problems and questions send to the help desk by Norwegian researchers.

The ELIXIR-Norway subnodes

Bergen

The Bergen subnode of ELIXIRR-Norway is the Computational Biology Unit. CBU is a research centre and provides bioinformatics services (see the CBU service group web page).

Subnode and ELIXIR-Norway scientific leader: Inge Jonassen.

Oslo

The subnode in Oslo is organised through a group of bioinformaticians located at Radiumhospitalet, Oslo University Hospital and at the Department of informatics, University of Oslo. 

Subnode leader: Eivind Hovig.

Trondheim

The Trondheim subnode of ELIXIR-Norway is shared by Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology.  (look here for more)

Subnode leader: Finn Drabløs.

Tromsø

The subnode in Tromsø is organised through the Norwegian Structural Biology Center (NorStruct). NorStruct is a national service and competence centre in structural biology.

Subnode leader: Nils-Peder Willassen