The Oslo part of the FUGE Bioinformatics platform

With financial support from EMBIO, CEES in collaboration with USIT has developed a third version of the bioportal. CBO has contributed significantly to this development. This is a framework for making resources and bioinformatic software easily available to researchers in life sciences. It has currently more than 100 users, and process about 400 analysis of different types each month.

The bioportal is constantly beeing expanded and is moving towards making it a systems-biology resource, in the sense that data is included from different resources. One project in this effort is making the genegrabber framework and the pipeline made in collaboration with the Salmon genome project.

The bioportal is also moving toward including more generic types of analytical tools, such as R and Matlab. Tools for instance needed in analysis of data from biobanks.