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Bioinformatics

The Bioinformatics Core supports students, faculty, and researchers throughout the state and region with computational educational, training, platforms, and services related to biomedical research.

A primary focus of the Bioinformatics Core is support for the joint UALR/UAMS Graduate Program in Bioinformatics . The graduate program began officially in 2004 as a direct result of funding by the AR INBRE and offers both Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Bioinformatics.

The Bioinformatics Core supports activities of the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center at UALR (MBC).  Students, faculty, and researchers  can make use of the consulting services, computational resources, skills workshops, reference library, and online knowledge base provided by the MBC.  Workshops on Linux bash scripting, Galaxy platform for bioinformatics, R statistical analysis and machine learning/AI are regular offerings.  Many bioinformatics graduate students have assistantships working in the MBC, some of which are sponsored by the Arkansas INBRE, the UALR Donaghey College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and the UAMS College of Medicine.

The MBC through the Bioinformatics Core provides technical and strategic support to the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS), a regional society founded by UALR professor, Dr. Steve Jennings. This includes website services, maintaining listservs, and facilitating the attendance at the annual MCBIOS conference by Arkansas students and faculty.

Additionally, the Bioinformatics Core supports the bioinformatics research efforts of the undergraduate faculty researchers sponsored by the Arkansas INBRE.

NEW this fall, 2020, the Bioinformatics Core announces a seminar series called, Integrating Bioinformatics Education Series for faculty across the state in the Life Sciences.  For more information and a list of the seminars, please click HERE.

Fall 2020 Seminar Dates – All sessions will be hosted by Blackboard Collaborate using this link: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/c372c2c86cae468ca1477cb39801cec3. In addition, the recorded sessions will be made available on the AR INBRE Youtube Channel for later viewing – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEPR4IU7HEhXMuyW6TrM6eg .

AR INBRE Bioinformatics Core Services Flyer

Bioinformatics Core Support Request Form

Contact Dr. Elizabeth Pierce or Dr. Mary Yang for more information regarding the joint UALR/UAMS Graduate Program in Bioinformatics.

Elizabeth Pierce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair, UALR
Little Rock, AR 72204
(501) 683-7056 (voice)

Mary Yang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair, UALR
Little Rock, AR 72204
(501) 683-7056 (voice)

Contact Dr. Galina Glazko for consulting services and tools for the analysis, integration and interpretation of large-scale biological “omics” data.

Galina Glazko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UAMS
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 603-1758 (voice)

Please contact Diane McKinstry regarding questions or comments about this site or our program.
For more information about the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences visit http://www.uams.edu.

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