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About us

The CBF aims to develop and support data-driven biological and clinical research by forming new collaborations. We work as scientific partners and as service providers offering tailor-made solutions across a wide range of bioinformatics, statistics and functional interpretation of data. We are proud members of Liverpool Shared Research Facilities at the University of Liverpool.

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Our expertise

We have a wide range of expertise in multi-omics data analyses, modelling applied to life sciences, software and database development. We provide computational biology development opportunities on a regular basis.

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Case studies and selected publications

Whether you are looking for computational biology advice or to establish a new partnership to support your research activities, we are here to help. Our case studies detail some of our past work. For our formal outputs check our publications.

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Scientific partnerships

With a strong portfolio of national and international projects we contribute to the advancement of numerous fields. We have established some long-term partnerships where we work closely with teams for longer projects. We also offer computational biology support to academia and industry. Other services include short and medium term collaborative projects to address focussed questions.

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Teaching Data Science applied to biosciences

In the CBF, we are passionate about enabling all scientists to work within multidisciplinary teams. In particular, we believe that broadening the horizons of lab scientists and clinicians by providing development opportunities in statistics, programming and data science is an important step to bridge the gap. Check our popular courses currently in offer here.