Genetics Bioinformatics Service Center (GBSC)

Stanford Genetics Bioinformatics Service Center was set up in summer of 2013 to provide for the growing needs of Big Data genetics research at Stanford.

Description of Services

GBSC provides best-in-class computational infrastructure for ultra high throughput high performance workload for genomics and related research. The current infrastructure has over 1000 cores, 2 petabytes of storage and offers over 50 software tools, several of which are commercially licensed. This infrastructure serves over 300 researchers and covers a wide range of research including non-mammalian and microbial genomes, basic science research like ENCODE, human variant analysis, cancer research and personalized medicine, integrative omics profiling, evolutional biology and population genetics.

GBSC team comprise of BS/MS/PhDs in variety of computational fields including Computer Science, BioMedical Engineering, Computational Physics and Bioinformatics and represent over 50 years of professional experience in solving complex scientific and software problems.  The team brings a suite of expertise in Next Generation Sequencing bioinformatics data analysis and software development. The team has successfully delivered on a variety of projects including large scale sequencing center data analysis, laboratory management systems, and development of cutting edge variant and cancer genomics analysis pipelines.

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275 Panama Street Forsythe Hall Data Center
Stanford, CA 94305
United States