CSC

	Tehdyt toimenpiteet CSC, the Finnish IT center for science Bioinformatics group Group leader: Tommi Nyrönen Home page: http://www.csc.fi/molbio/ CSC is the Finnish IT center for science, governed by the Ministry of Education. CSC provides modeling, computing, networking and information services for universities, polytechnics, research institutions and industrial companies. Most of the services of CSC are free for researchers working in the Finnish universities. The bioinformatics group of CSC maintains a wide selection of software and databases that can be used in the servers of CSC or locally, with the licenses provided by CSC. The tool and database selection cover DNA microarray data analysis, gene mapping, molecular modeling and sequence analysis. CSC also provides support and training in bioinformatics. The customers can, get on-line assistance from the specialists of CSC, use the guide books and web pages produced by CSC or attend to the courses of CSC. During 2003-2004 over 20 bioinformatics courses and events were arranged. Many of these courses were video recorded and are freely available for viewing on the web. The bioinformatics group of CSC is doing reserah and development work to enhance its services. Current R&D projects include: Developing a national storage and analysis environment for microarray data (Nami/SYSBIO) Assembling scattered (yeast) biological data and providing data storage and distribution service (SyMBOLIC/NEOBIO) Developing computational software and data analysis environment for molecular discovery (SOMA/DRUG2000, SASYSBIO) Integrating and grid-enabling the major databases and software tools in bioinformatics (EMBRACE/EUNoE) Ph.D. project in small molecule nuclear receptor modulators Building interface to PairsDB-database by prof. Liisa Holm Back to the group list