University of Nottingham

Areas of Expertise

Our areas of expertise is broad, and some examples of research conducted  are listed below.               

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Bioinformatics

  • Genome / Epigenome analysis
  • Interpretation of genome resequencing data
  • Expression analysis by microarray / next-generation sequencing
  • Systems Biology
  • Phylogenetics
  • Molecular Evolution 

Informatics

  • Artificial intelligence for decision support
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Management
 

Case Studies

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Chips with everything: Analysis of cancer types in dogs and man 

Osteosarcoma is an aggressive malignant neoplasm in dogs, being common in larger breeds. In contrast, human osteosarcoma is rare and more commonly occurs in children where it is invariably lethal. 

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57 varieties of Support: Investigating the tomato genome

The explosion of data from so called 'omics' technologies has provided the researcher with an unprecedented amount of data. However, without the local skills to analyse and interpret these data, the problem of too much data and not enough information rears it's head. 

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Breast cancer: Discovering new subtypes by artificial intelligence approaches 

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and cause of cancer death in women in England. In 2003, 36,500 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed, representing 32% of all cancers in women. Out of these, 10,500 women died, a rate of 29 deaths per 100,000 women. 

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Record and predict thy voice

Does the voice of your children sounds similar to yours? An interdisciplinary group of scientists from the University of Nottingham have set out to investigate which parameters of the human voice are heritable.

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Advanced Data Analysis Centre

ADAC was a joint initiative between the School of Computer Science
and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science. We have since grown and became known as
Digital Research Service, part of DTS.
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