Award details

Bioinformatics and Statistics Support

Reference	BBS/E/F/00042247
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor E K Kemsley
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	504,229
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2005
End date	01/04/2009
Duration	48 months

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to provide support in statistical analysis, and aspects of research computing, to the other IFR science programmes. The staff effort on this project is coordinated centrally, but formally available IFR-wide. Specifically, activities conducted through this project are: (a) Data analysis input into projects, particularly where the amount of effort needed is only a fraction of staff time and where there is an expectation by the funding body that this effort and cost is met internally by IFR (e.g. as stated by BBSRC); (b) Enabling 'pump-priming': carrying out short-term, exploratory analyses in collaboration with researchers from the science programmes, where the goal is to produce proposals that include further long-term informatics funding, which would be based within the science groups. Activities in statistics and informatics that would otherwise be difficult to fund, for example the 'statistics helpdesk'. This offers immediately accessible in-house support in statistics and elements of software engineering, for example assistance to scientists in carrying out their own analysis (e.g. avoiding misuse of statistical methods, promoting best practice). It is coordinated by the Institute Statistician, who provides input into dozens of projects and proposals across IFR each year.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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