NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE - CANCER.GOV

Contact Information

Primary Contact

Daoud Meerzaman
Chief

Location

9609 MEDICAL CENTER DR.
Rockville, MD 20850

Overview

We are a bioinformatics team within the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology’s (CBIIT’s) Cancer Informatics Branch (CIB)—soon to be referred to as the Informatics and Data Science (IDS) Program. Headed by our chief, Dr. Daoud Meerzaman. Collectively, we have an extensive knowledge of data analysis fields and methodologies. We’ve even developed some of our own analytics tools!

List of Services

We provide bioinformatics analysis support for life sciences and clinical & translational research for intramural investigators in NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) and Center for Cancer Research (CCR). Overall, the team specializes in:

  • comprehensive and integrative data analysis.
  • consulting and training in next generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis.
  • developing bioinformatics tools and algorithms for genomics data analysis.

User Guidelines

To access service, please visit: Computational Genomics Bioinformatics Branch site. Services are reserved for intramural investigators in NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) and Center for Cancer Research (CCR)

Keywords

Amplification and Deletion)BiostaticChIP-SequencingDNA MethylationEpigenomicsExpression LevelFusion TranscriptsGene fusionGenomicsGlobal Mapping (of DNA-protein interactions)Histone ModificationIlluminaImmunoprofilingMethylation-SequencingMicroarrayMutationNetworkNovel TranscriptsPathwayPhosphorylationProtein ExpressionProtein-protein interactionProteomic ArraysProteomicsRNA-SequencingReverse Phase Protein ArraySNP ArraysSingle nucleotides variations and mutationsSplice variantsStructural Variation Discovery\\\\n(e.g.TransciptomicsVariety of platforms such as AffymetrixWhole Exome SequencingWhole Genome Sequencingand custom arraysBioinformatics Biostatistics and Computinggene expressionmRNA ArraysmiRNA Arraysnci-ncr