Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is an integral and growing part of Scotlands life sciences sector. Within the last few years there has been high growth in bioinformatics activities in Scotland. Scotland continues to require appropriately skilled bioinformatics professionals to keep pace with this change. Keep up-to-date with opportunities - Register to receive regular news and jobs information from the life sciences industry in Scotland. Hundreds of industrial and academic researchers have chosen to work in Scotland, making the country one of the largest global centres of bioinformatics excellence.
"People in my area of work (bioinformatics) know Dundee and Scotlands reputation for good research. I can walk from my home to the airport, and be in central London in three hours. Communications are very good and Dundee has a beautiful location in its favour." Prof Geoff Barton, Computational Biology Group leader, University of Dundee
Scotlands key bioinformatics technical strengths include: - microarrays and gene expression analysis;
- sequence comparison and alignment;
- genome comparison;
- protein structure prediction and modelling;
- visualisation and image analysis;
- modelling of cellular processes;
- data and knowledge representation;
- medical applications of bioinformatics.
Industrial Research The cross-discipline nature of bioinformatics means that your skills could find a home in a number of Scotlands Life Sciences companies. Key industrial bioinformatics roles include drug discovery and arrays work in companies such as CXR Biosciences, Schering Plough and Arrayjet. Click here for introductions to Scotlands life sciences companies. An attractive feature of Scotlands bioinformatics sector is a strong collaborative network between industry and academia who work closely on both consultancy projects to address particular key problems and long-term projects to develop novel intellectual property. Academic Research Scotlands bioinformatics sector has a large and active academic research community. There is a base of more than 2000 full time equivalent research staff working in bioinformatics disciplines and a large number of high level bioinformatics facilities. This includes open-access research facilities such as Scottish Instrumentation and Resource Centre for Advanced Mass Spectrometry (SIRCAMS) at University of Edinburgh, and further facilities at Universities of Glasgow and Dundee. These specialise in instrumentation for proteomics, genomics and bioinformatics. It's also worth noting that two of the six prestigious government funded Beacon projects were awarded to groups based in Scotland under Professor Peter Ghazal at the University of Edinburgh and Professor David Gilbert at the University of Glasgow. The University of Edinburgh has developed a Centre for Bioinformatics, a network drawing on several highly-rated academic schools within the University of Edinburgh. It also links other Universities and world-leading research institutes. Scottish universities play a fundamental part in the National E-Science Centre (NeSC) based at the University of Edinburgh. This facility includes world-class networked grid computing equivalent to that found in major US biotech hubs. There are further main hubs at the Universities of Dundee and Glasgow. Other centres of research excellence Click here for introductions to Scotlands academic and research departments. Scotland offers an exciting and fast growing community of life sciences companies and research facilities involved in bioinformatics. Please read on below for a wealth of further information on the sector. More information: Life Sciences Scotland
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