Zentrum für Quantitative Biologie (QBiC)

Research in medicine and the life sciences produce increasingly huge amounts of primary data. In particular, these data sets are produced in genome sequecing experiments, as well as in transcriptome, metabolome and proteome-wide experiments. These technologies are summarized as OMICS technologies. While the technolgy is getting cheaper and the time for data acquisition is getting shorter, data management, high-performance computing as well as bioinformatics are currently becoming a major component and contribute increasingly to the overall cost of such experiments.

Through a central IT infrastructure, strong collaborations with experts of the individual technologies and a team of bioinformaticians, QBiC provides a one-stop-shop for high-throughput technologies. The entire workflow includes experimental design, data acquisition, data processing, - analysis and - archiving. The integration of different, and often very heterogeneous data sets, is realized through the platfrom established at QBiC.

Since August 2012 QBiC is being established as a service provider for bioinformatics and OMICS techologies. It can be found on the Natural Science campus of the University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 10.