Bio & Health Informatics & Systems Biology
The
Northwest Institute for Bio/Health Informatics (NIBHI) is a
research partnership centered at The University of Manchester and
linked to the Universities of Liverpool, Salford, Lancaster, UCLAN,
Liverpool John Moores and Daresbury Laboratories. The Institute
provides the focus for all Bio and Health Informatics activities in
the region, strengthening the interfaces between academia, industry
and the health service and creating a world-class capability in
research, training and support. Research and included themes:
functional genomics, molecular evolution, sequence analysis,
structural bioinformatics, systems biology and e-science.
Social Biohealth E-Laboratories. NIBHI fosters
transdisciplinary research across biological, clinical and social
organisation. The E-Labs have been developed to leverage burgeoning
biohealth data sources in defined populations for discovery and
service development e.g studies and trials in psychosis, obesity
and cholesteral.
Manchester Centre
for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB). The BBSRC/EPSRC funded
centre at the University of Manchester, is one of only three such
centres in the UK. It pioneers the development of new experimental
and computational technologies in systems biology and their
exploitation.
National Centre
for Text Mining (NACTEM). The centre operates from the
University of Manchester in close collaboration with the University
of Tokyo and provides a solution to the challenge of 'data
deluge'. The centre works closely with Bioinformatics at
Manchester.
The University of Manchester's Bioinformatics and Specialist Node of EMBnet apply computational, mathematical and statistical approaches to the study of biological molecules and systems.
The Genome Information Management Centre (GIMS), linked to research initiatives in yeast genomics, is also based at Manchester.
The Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire. The laboratory hosts a Protein Crystallography Computing Centre and an e-Science Centre, which includes a super-computing facility.
AstraZeneca, Alderley Park in Cheshire. The site hosts the largest of the company's two informatics centres, part of a 'Corporate University' which provides distance learning material in biohealth informatics to scientists company wide. AstraZeneca are key sponsors of NIBHI.
CSols in Cheshire. The company is a leading supplier of instrument-LIMS integration products and services. Sectors serviced include: Pharmaceutical manufacturing and research & development; Biotechnology; Chemical and petrochemical.
Tessella Support Services in Warrington. This software services company specialises in the support of scientific, technical and engineering establishments.
