Presentation
The IBIS Bioinformatics Platform is a multidisciplinary team of professionals at the service of researchers since 2009. We offer bioinformatics support to researchers from the IBIS and Université Laval, as well as external partners from other universities, governments, and private organizations. You can explore our service offer in the “Services” drop-down menu.
Vision and mission
Use use our bioinformatics expertise to support research in the fields of conservation, environment, agriculture, forestry, human health, and fundamental research. Through our efforts, we contribute to sustainable development, innovative agricultural practices, forest conservation, and advancements in human health.
Integrated services
The institute also offers turnkey project services with both sequencing and bioinformatics. For more information about our sequencing services, visit the IBIS Genomics Analysis Platform page and contact us for more information!
Our team
Eric Normandeau
- Platform Manager
- Specialist, genomics and metagenomics
- Profil Google Scholar
Halim Maaroufi
- Specialist, proteomics (structure and function) and metagenomics
- Profil Google Scholar
Laurie Lecomte
- Specialist, genomics
- Profil Google Scholar
Stéphane Larose
- IT Administrator
Genomics
- Genotyping By Sequencing (GBS)
- Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)
- Transcriptomics (RNA-seq, with reference)
- Custom analyses and pipeline development
- Sequence similarity search
- Genome assembly
Metagenomics
- Eukaryote eDNA metabarcoding 12S, COI…
- Bacterial and fungal metabarcoding 16S, 18S and ITS
- Bacterial eDNA metabarcoding (shotgun)
- Phylogenetics reconstruction
Proteomics
- Protein structure prediction by AlphaFold 3, Chai-1 and ESMFold
- Functional Annotation
- Protein interactions with protein, peptide, DNA, RNA, ligand and ions (AlphaFold 3 and Chai-1)
- AlphaPulldown (to discover new protein-protein interactions)
- Structure-function of peptides (antimicrobial, inhibitors, etc.)
- Prediction of mutations impact on structure-function of proteins
- Design in silico of novel peptides binders
- Molecular dynamics simulations
Informatics services
- Compiling / Installing / Updating software
- Support for user accounts and server usage
- Linux servers hosting and administration
- Development and modification of scripts, software, web pages
- Managing group partitions and storage
- Maintaining and updating databases
- Tape archiving
Research support
- Help for grant proposals
- Plan experimental design, technologies, and analyses
- Data management plan
Training
- Analyses of 16S and ITS rRNA genes with MOTHUR and QIIME-2
- 3D protein modeling and docking