Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core (BBC)
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core (BBC)
The BBC provides support and education for data science, biostatistics, bioinformatics, and computational biology to EHSC investigators to help advance environmental health (EH) research. The overall mission of the BBC is to foster self-sustaining collaborations between BBC team members and other EHSC faculty to advance EH sciences research and to advance biostatistical and bioinformatical methods relevant for EH research.
The BBC team is directed by Dr. Sally Thurston. The other team members are Dr. John Ashton, Ms. Jen Becker, Dr. Tanzy Love, and Dr. Matthew McCall. The academic home of team members is the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (Thurston, Love, McCall) or the Genomics Research Center (Ashton, Becker).
Services Provided
- Consultation with EHSC Investigators on planning and study design, including
- Suggestions for appropriate study design, clarification and refinement of study objectives, sample size calculations
- Planning for EHSC pilot projects
- Consultation with EHSC investigators on statistical analysis of research projects, including
- Advice on data visualization
- Determination of appropriate statistical models for analysis
- Biostatistical data analysis of completed studies, including
- Data visualization, development of graphical displays for publication and presentations.
- Statistical modeling, summary of methods used, results summary
- Bioinformatics data analysis, including
- Analysis of transcriptomic, proteomic, and whole genome data stemming from deep sequencing methods
- Gene expression analysis, gene-set enrichment analysis, network analysis
- Consultation in relation to career development and education
Contact Us
Sally Thurston, PhD, - Director
Jennifer L. Becker, M.S. - Bioinformatics Analyst
