Bioinformatics Core
The goal of the SC INBRE Bioinformatics Core is to increase the National Institutes of Health research capacity of the state by providing bioinformatics support to faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students of the lead and partner institutions.
Core Resources
Homayoun Valafar
Director
homayoun@cec.sc.edu
803-777-2404
Proteogenomics Facility at MUSC
Provides proteomics services, including luminex bead array based
cytokine and phosphoprotein analysis (i.e., Bio-plex) and surface
plasmon resonance based protein interaction analysis (i.e., BIAcore).
Provides genomics services, including qualitative analysis of RNA (i.e.,
Agilent Lab-on-a-chip Bioanalyzer), DNA microarray based whole
transcriptome and miRNA expression profiling, SNP and ChIP-Chip
analysis, Real time PCR, next generation sequencing (i.e., Ion Torrent
PGM) for RNA-seq, resequencing and ChIP-seq applications, and
bioinformatics services for analysis of DNA microarray and next
generation sequencing data and web-based archiving of data.
Dr. Scott Argraves, Director
USC/SCCP Microarray Core Facility
Provides processing of Agilent microarrays and the printing of custom
arrays
Dr. Kim Creek, Director
Instrumentation Resource Facility at the USC School of Medicine
Houses state-of-the-art biomedical research equipment, provides imaging
of whole animal to single cell and analysis
Dr. Robert Price, Director