About
About the FUGE Bioinformatics platform
The FUGE bioinformatics platform is a joint project hosted by three partner organisations: the University of Bergen, the University of Oslo and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. In addition, the platform has a node at the University of Tromsø.
The platform is coordinated from the Computational Biology Unit at the University of Bergen.
The platform develops solutions for the analysis, storage, organisation or visualisation of biological and medical data (see Applications).
In particular, the platform offers assistance and consulting services in bioinformatics to Norwegian researchers (see Help desk). Education in bioinformatics is another goal of the platform 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 platform nodes
Bergen
The Bergen node of the bioinformatics platform is the Computational Biology Unit. CBU is a research centre and provides bioinformatics services (see the CBU service group web page).
Node and platform leader: Inge Jonassen.
Oslo
The node in Oslo is organised through a group of bioinformaticians located at Radiumhospitalet and UiO.
Node leader: Eivind Hovig.
Trondheim
The Trondheim node of the FUGE Bioinformatics Platform is shared by Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology. (look here for more)
Node leader: Finn Drabløs.
Tromsø
The node in Tromsø is organised through the Norwegian Structural Biology Center (NorStruct). NorStruct is a national service and competence centre in structural biology.
Industrial partners
The FUGE Bioinformatics platform has four industrial partners:
