Software for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics
The Analysis Tools and Training initiative is designed to enhance research in functional genomics and pathway analysis. The university has purchased subscriptions to commercial software programs designed to help researchers integrate, analyze and visualize genome-scale data sets from several different sources of information. The initiative, which is funded by the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (IIMS) and administered through the institutional research core facilities, provides site licenses for the following software packages:

Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA)
JMP Genomics (by SAS)
Partek Genomics Suite

One advantage of these packages is that the typical biomedical researcher can learn how to perform some important applications using biostatistics and bioinformatics without needing skills in programming. The initiative provides university scientists with discounted access to premier software packages, and it places an emphasis on the training needed to get started.