Northeast Biodefense Center Biomedical Informatics Core

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The Biomedical Informatics Core (BIC) of the Northeast Biodefense Center is located at Columbia University’s Medical Center. The goal of the BIC is to establish collaborations with member scientists to meet their increasing need to deal with large and complex genomic, proteomic, and clinical data in their biomedical research. The Core provides computational and consulting services to assist researchers in better understanding pathogen biology, pathogen-host interactions, and rational therapeutic and vaccine design using cutting-edge tools of informatics and computational biology.

The BIC builds on substantial existing infrastructure at Columbia's Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (C2B2) and at the National Center for the Multiscale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks (MAGNet) which includes powerful computational clusters as well as a wide range of software for nucleic acid and protein analyses, molecular modeling and statistical analyses.