Professional Services

Integration of advanced computational techniques is essential for continued progress in the sciences. The focus of our Professional Services Group is to identify and integrate best-in-class information processing technologies capable of automating the broad range of data management and complex knowledge acquisition strategies required in applied research today. In support of this goal, we utilize a wide variety of internally developed, open source, and commercial off-the-shelf tools and systems for software development and systems integration projects. The center operates under the following project management and software engineering principles:

• Identify best-in-class tools and technologies to permit rapid integration of rule-based, statistical, or pattern recognition based computational strategies
• Continually decrease software development complexity by utilizing Agile Development techniques
• Employ the best architectural strategies, including SoA and SaaS, for maximum flexibility and lower TCO

Our Professional Services Group delivers superior value to the laboratory and to the individual researcher by providing rapid application software development for the following disciplines and activities:

• Molecular Mining
• Genotyping
• Pathway Analysis

To learn more about the Informatics and Biocomputing Resources at MBI, please call 508-797-4200 extension 203.