About the group
The Bioinformatics group is also one of the eleven research groups in the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN) in Oslo, Norway. It also belongs to the Institute of Medical Microbiology, which is a department at Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital and an institute at the University of Oslo (UiO). The group is co-located in the Joint Centre for Bioinformatics with the Bioinformatics group at the Department of Informatics at UiO.
The bioinformatics-related activities were initiated in the research group of Erling Seeberg (to the left on the image above), who supported bioinformatics research very strongly. The bioinformatics group was formed by Torbjørn Rognes in August 2002 and has now grown to a large group of people.
The group works closely with the other CMBN research groups and with other groups at the hospital and the university like the groups of Magnar Bjørås, Arne Klungland, Tone Tønjum, Eivind Hovig, Rolf I Skotheim, Ragnhild A Lothe, Erik Boye, Farrukh A Chaudhry and Hilde Nilsen. We also collaborate with David W Ussery's group at CBS in Denmark.
We concentrate our research on issues related to improving the computational analysis of the vast amounts of genome sequence data available. Read more about our research projects. We also provide bioinformatics services through the Core Facilities for Bioinformatics and Structural Biology at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet.
We are grateful for the valuable computational resources and services provided by the Scientific Computing Group at the Department of Information Technology Services (USIT) at UiO.
Funding
The group is currently funded by the following:
- Research Council of Norway
- University of Oslo
- Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital
- European Union, 6FP
Commercial Relations
We work closely with the companies Sencel Bioinformatics and PubGene which are commercialising some of the software developed in the group.
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