The Data Science Hub

The Technology Facility's Data Science Hub provides a wide variety of data science services to customers from both academia and industry.

We are able to provide expertise in all phases from experimental design and data collection, through data analysis to downstream visualisation and dissemination.

Genomics

De-novo genome assembly
SNP analysis
Genome re-sequencing
Annotation

Transcriptomics

RNASeq from both short-read (Illumina) and long-read (Oxford Nanopore) data
Single-cell RNAseq
Spatial transcriptomics
ChIPseq

Software design

Bespoke software design & implementation (R, Python & Rust)
High-performance software

Experimental Design

Experimental design consultancy
Data analysis
Visualisation
Web-based data visualisation

Teaching

Training in scientific computing
Programming tuition
Tuition on specific analysis & techniques

Our people

Name	Role	Contact
Alastair Droop	Head of Laboratory	alastair.droop@york.ac.uk
Sandy MacDonald	Bioinformatics Technical Specialist	s.macdonald@york.ac.uk
Sophia Ahmed	Bioinformatics Technical Specialist	sophia.ahmed@york.ac.uk
Fabiano Pais	Bioinformatics Technical Specialist	fabiano.pais@york.ac.uk

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