Welcome to SLUBI
The SLU bioinformatics Infrastructure
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Our main goal is to provide support and training in bioinformatics for SLU staff, and to build a strong community of bioinformaticians within SLU. Our staff is located on the 3 SLU campuses in Ultuna, Umeå and Alnarp. We want to join forces and coordinate teaching activities, common resources (hardware, software).
Bioinformatics support
How do I get bioinformatics support from SLUBI?
You have several solutions:
We suggest that researchers contact SLUBI at an early stage to discuss the planned project, experimental design and what kind of support will be needed. Initial consultation is free. Subsequent SLUBI support and bioinformatics analyses cost 600 SEK/h.
Online drop-in session
Every Wednesday 13:00-14:00
Meet us in this Zoom room (Password: 410 410)
Before the pandemic, SLUBI organised bioinformatics drop-in sessions at all 3 SLU campuses for answering various bioinformatics questions around a fika. Now the drop-in goes online: all campuses at the same place and time! Come and join us with your questions or take the opportunity to gather and exchange experiences with other bioinformaticians.
About us
We are located at 3 SLU campuses, Alnarp, Ultuna and Umeå, and provide support to researchers from all 4 faculties: LTV (Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture and Crop Production Science), NJ (Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences ), S (Faculty of Forest Sciences) and VH (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science).
Organisation of the SLU Bioinformatics Infrastructure
Our team
Amrei Binzer-Panchal, director and coordinator (Ultuna)
RNAseq, methylation data, microarrays, 10x single cell RNAseq
Ganapathi Varma Saripella (AKA Varma), expert bioinformatician (LTV, Alnarp)
RNAseq, WGS, WES, GWAS, SNP-calling, annotation and data-mining
Nicolas Delhomme, expert bioinformatician (S, Umeå)
Expression-profiling, High-Throughput sequencing (*-Seq), Gene Network Inference, Gene Regulation
Adnan Niazi, expert bioinformatician (VH, Ultuna)
RNAseq, Metabarcoding (16S/18S/ITS), Epigenomics (WGBS/RRBS), Genome assembly and annotation
Position to be filled (NJ, Ultuna)
Steering committee
Dirk-Jan de Koning, chair of board (VH, Ultuna)
Anders Carlsson, board member (LTV, Alnarp)
Stéphanie Robert, board member (S, Umeå)
Johan Meijer, board member (NJ, Ultuna)
Computing resources
SLUBI computing resources:
We have computing resources at all campuses and will try to coordinate the management of these.
Computing resources for the Swedish research community:
We would like to remind that researchers can get computing resources for free by applying to SNIC (Uppmax and other clusters).
Cloud computing
SLU has an agreement with Microsoft Azure for cloud computing (including price discounts). You can get more information by contacting the IT-support
SLUBI on GitHub
Events and News
Upcoming and current events:
Analysis of High Throughput Sequencing RNA-Seq Data
(winter 2021)
Statistics seminar series, arranged by SLUs centre of statistics (ongoing)
More information here
Past events:
Bioinformatics course - Ultuna and online - autumn 2021
Course information here
Analysis of High Throughput Sequencing RNA-Seq Data - winter 2020
Bioinformatics course - Ultuna, spring 2020
Uppmax information meeting: 8 May 2019
Uppmax staff came to SLU for informing on how to use the free Uppmax computing resources.
R workshop 24th of September: SLUBI and the research school GS-VMAS jointly organised a R-day for researchers and supervisors.
SLUBI day on the 4th of June 2018
