About

The Bioinformatics Core at NYUAD CGSB provides computational infrastructure and services for sequence analysis in support of a wide range of research projects. The team develops analytical pipelines, joint genomics resources, training programs, data policies, and handles data management.

The team’s mission is to:

  • Establish and maintain high throughput computational pipelines.

  • Collaborate and support NYUAD’s multidisciplinary research programs.

  • Provide Scientific project management solutions to researchers.

  • Establish and maintain data management solutions.

  • Provide expert scientific consultation and advice.

  • Bioinformatics training and personal development to the wider NYUAD community.

  • Develop new tools and resources for the analysis, visualization and management of high throughput genomics datasets.

The team focuses on the following types of analysis:

  • Resequencing and structural variation analysis.

  • De novo genome and transcriptome assembly.

  • Metagenomic (16s and 18s) analysis as well as metagenomic assembly.

  • Epigenetic analysis.

  • Gene finding and annotation.

  • Expression analysis (differential gene expression and transcriptome profiling) on whole and Single Cell RNAseq.

Team

Name

Position

Kristin Gunsalus

Director of Bioinformatics

Nizar Drou

Core Bioinformatics Lead Developer

Muhammad Arshad

Research Scientist

Jayaram Radhakrishnan

Bioinformatics Infrastructure Engineer

Giuseppe-Antonio Saldi

Data Computational Scientist