Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management and analysis of biological data. It is an interdisciplinary research area that is the interface between the biological and computational sciences. The eventual goal of bioinformatics is to decode the genetic information and uncover the wealth of biological information hidden in the mass of data and obtain a clearer insight into the fundamental biology of organisms. This new knowledge will have tremendous impacts on fields as varied as human health, agriculture, the environment, energy and biotechnology.

We have several years of experience working with biomedical databases  (NCBI, UniProt, EBI), GMOD, BioPerl, BioRuby and Gene Ontology projects. GMOD is the Generic Model Organism Database Toolkit, a collection of software tools for creating and managing genome-scale biological databases. We have expertise in implementing and customizing GMOD tools such as Chado Schema, Apollo, Biomart, GBrowse. In the past we have worked with a diverse collection of life science investigators to develop applications that incorporate data from genome sequencing centers, stock centers, public biomedical databases and local data analysis from bioinformatics toolsets.