Our custom software development team can help you scale-up your data storage and management facilities as your data volumes grow. We can also help you develop new analysis methods for your data, or adapt existing analysis methods to run effectively on our high-capacity computing facilities (and in some cases on our high-capability machines).

Our team includes ten people with educational backgrounds ranging from biology to physics, from computer science to electronic engineering.

We provide the front-end (this web server) and backbone web services to the user community. We are in charge of installation and maintenance of the bioinformatic applications.

We can provide help and advice in the following areas, where we have years of active experience:

AREA	description
Databases
Database design	We have experience in database design in Entity-Relationship models and UML.
Oracle	Installation, administration of Oracle 9i and 10g. Developments in SQL and PL/SQL. Applications development in Perl and Java. We have experience with Oracle since Oracle 6.
MySQL	Installation, administration of Mysql4 and 5. Developments in SQL. These are the databases installed on our servers, using Mysql5: GO , PO, the splicing database, ENSEMBL. BASE2 (for microarray data) and PROTEIOS (for proteomics data). Applications in Perl and PhP (for the web).
PostgreSQL	Installation, administration of PostgreSQL 7 and 8. Developements in SQL and pgSQL. We are currently porting dbSNP (from the NCBI) into a postgreSQL database. Applications development in Perl, Java, PhP.
Bioinformatics tools: all these tools and more are installed on our systems
EMBOSS	We can help you install locally all the EMBOSS packages and tools.
Molecular Tools	Many of these tools are visualisation tools that run on the user machine. We can help install them.
Sequence Analysis Tools	We have installed all the current analysis packages. We can give help and advice.
Bioinformatics databases
Sequence Databases	We have currently more than 300 sequences files for our blast servers. We can help you chose and install locally those best suited for your needs.
Ensembl	We can help you either install ensembl locally, or give you direct SQL access to the database on our servers. We can also help you with the ENSEMBL perl API programmation.
Development
Java	Development of standalone applications in Java.
Perl	Development of perl scripts, with access to databases using DBI. Some of the backends of our web applications are developed in perl.
Php	Development of web interfaces for databases.
Python	Development of scripts in python. All our web application are developped in python inside zope.
ZOPE & PLONE	All our web site is build on Zope and Plone. We have developped Zope Products and Plone Products for the applications. We can help you install and manage a Plone/Zope web site.
Operating system
Linux	All our systems run on linux. We use fedora core 5 and fedora core 6. Our database system is running redhat enterprise.
MacOsX	Installation and maintenance of MacOs all versions. We currently run Jaguar (10.2), Panther (10.3) and Tiger (10.4) on our different laptops/desktops. We have installed the beta version of bootcamp.
Windows	Installation of all versions of windows.
Linux tools installation
GNU, Apache	We can install all gnu tools, apache, gimp etc....