BARN (Bioinformatics Analysis and Research Nexus)
Harness the Power of Your Data
Associated with the Center of Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics (CEMI) at the Biodesign Institute, BARN is a core facility at ASU that provides effective and efficient bioinformatics solutions to the research community. Centralized resources of high-end computation facilities and experienced bioinformaticians are accessible to any biologist who is challenged by the large volume and increased complexity of data. Via close collaboration with BARN scientists from multidisciplinary background, biologists will be able to harness the power of their data and become more competitive in their research fields.
BARN is led by a renowned scholar, Dr. Sudhir Kumar, who pioneers in the field of evolutionary bioinformatics. His team brings versatile domain expertise and problem-solving skills to the arena of data interpretation. Dr. Li Liu, BARN's assistant director, oversees and coordinates the scientific activities. Tailored to each individual project, not only are existing analysis tools employed, new algorithms can also be developed to ensure that the biological data are interpreted appropriately. BARN also boasts its hardware resources. Equipped with a 512-core server farm that has a total of 4,448 gigaflops of computation power and 600 GB aggregate RAM, and 20 TB storage capacities, it is ready to take a call for large-scale scientific computations.
Researchers within the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, and at public and private research institutions worldwide are invited to use this facility. Services will either be involved on a per-hour (extramural) or percent-effort (extra and intramural) basis. In the case of percent-effort, a researcher will engage a BARN scientist at a certain percent effort for a specified period of time. Inquiries about BARN should be directed to Dr. Liu.
BARN is led by a renowned scholar, Dr. Sudhir Kumar, who pioneers in the field of evolutionary bioinformatics. His team brings versatile domain expertise and problem-solving skills to the arena of data interpretation. Dr. Li Liu, BARN's assistant director, oversees and coordinates the scientific activities. Tailored to each individual project, not only are existing analysis tools employed, new algorithms can also be developed to ensure that the biological data are interpreted appropriately. BARN also boasts its hardware resources. Equipped with a 512-core server farm that has a total of 4,448 gigaflops of computation power and 600 GB aggregate RAM, and 20 TB storage capacities, it is ready to take a call for large-scale scientific computations.
Researchers within the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, and at public and private research institutions worldwide are invited to use this facility. Services will either be involved on a per-hour (extramural) or percent-effort (extra and intramural) basis. In the case of percent-effort, a researcher will engage a BARN scientist at a certain percent effort for a specified period of time. Inquiries about BARN should be directed to Dr. Liu.