Fios Genomics: Your Bioinformatics Specialists

At Fios Genomics, we have been bioinformatics specialists for over 15 years. Bioinformatic analyses are the core offering we specialise in and our large team of bioinformaticians comprises of specialists in everything from autoimmune diseases to virology.

Why should bioinformatics specialists analyse your data?

Your research is important, and your research data contains the crucial insights that could help you make a breakthrough. That’s why using bioinformatics specialists for your data analysis is a must. Only someone with a strong understanding of biology as well as statistics and computational analysis, can fully understand the story that your data is telling you.

However, why just have someone who understands your data analysing it? The best person to analyse it is a bioinformatician who specialises in your research area. A bioinformatician analysing your data should do a good job, but the right bioinformatician will do a great job. This is because they have the specialist knowledge to fully appreciate what your data analysis results mean in relation to your research. In turn, this enables them to recognise the hidden gems in your data that others may miss, and pinpoint the most relevant insights to advance your research.

Our Bioinformatics Specialists at Fios Genomics

We currently have a team of close to 30 bioinformaticians, so our expertise covers many research areas, such as:

• Genetics
• Microbiome
• Plants
• Immunology
• Oncology
• Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Autoimmune Diseases
• Virology
• Ecology

Various data types, such as:

• Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (ChIP-seq) data
• RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) data
• Single-Cell RNA-seq data
• Small RNA-seq data
• Spatial Transcriptomics data
• Metabolomics data
• Lipidomics data
• Proteome Integral Solubility Alteration (PISA) data
• Proteomics data
• Short Read DNA Sequencing data
• Long Read DNA Sequencing data

As well as key skill sets, including:

• Biostatistics
• Somatic Mutation Calling
• RNA-seq Variant Calling
• Polygenic Risk Scores Determination
• Copy Number Variation Analysis
• Genome Assembly
• Genome-/Phenome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS/PheWAS)
• Machine Learning
• Signature Generation
• Data Landscaping
• Data Mining
• Text Mining

What’s more, we are a highly collaborative team, so our bioinformatics specialists are continually learning from each other and upskilling, which is greatly encouraged. In fact, we regularly send bioinformaticians to industry events, such as the Festival of Genomics and Biodata, so they can keep up with latest developments.

In addition, all our bioinformaticians receive drug discovery and development awareness training as these are key research areas for many of our clients. This ensures our team understand the drug discovery and development process, as well as how challenging the journey from target discovery to market entry is. Such training provides an extra level of motivation for our bioinformaticians to uncover insights that will either advance our client’s drug development research or predict failures as early as possible. Our team understand how important early failure prediction in the drug discovery and development industry is in order to minimise wasted time and resources, so they can be refocused on new avenues with more potential for success.

The Best Person For The Job

Since bioinformatics is our speciality at Fios Genomics, we are committed to hiring and nurturing bioinformaticians who are excellent at, and passionate about, what they do. Our hybrid-working model allows us to hire from the whole of the UK talent pool, enabling us to recruit bioinformaticians with diverse skill sets.

This means that when you work with us, your analysis project is always assigned to the most suitable analyst available. However, even then, your lead analyst has the might of our entire bioinformatics team behind them, and can seek input from our bioinformatics specialists across various areas, if need be.

Bioinformatics Specialists are Bioinformaticians, Not Software Programmes

Bioinformatics software can be useful, but when you have important and complex data sets to integrate and analyse, a skilled bioinformatician is better. A skilled bioinformatician can advise on the most suitable analysis workflows in relation to your data and research question, as well as analyse and interpret your data with your research in mind. This enables them to reveal the most relevant insights from your data, and catch subtleties that software might miss.
On the other hand however, bioinformatics software doesn’t understand your research and isn’t tailored to it. In fact, bioinformatics software is often one-size-fits-all. It can uncover insights within data but it can’t understand them or their biological relevance like a bioinformatician can. When a skilled bioinformatician analyses your data, they identify the insights which will be most important to you.

In-depth Data Analysis Reports That Go Further Than Software

Another advantage of choosing bioinformatics specialists over bioinformatics software is the level of detail you can expect in your analysis report. At Fios, we are renowned for our comprehensive and interactive data analysis reports. We are more than happy to share an example report with you so you can see the functional architecture and level of information we provide as standard. Simply select your area of interest in the form below and we will send you our most relevant example report.

Working with Fios Genomics

If you want to harness the benefits of having bioinformatics specialists analyse your data, we can help. Fios Genomics has over 15 years of experience in providing bioinformatic analyses to clients in biotech, pharma and academia. Thanks to our expertise and dedication to excellent customer service, we have a 95% repeat business rate, so you know your data is in safe hands with us. However, don’t just take our word for it, see what our clients have to say:

Working with Fios Genomics was a pleasure from beginning to end, with my immensely helpful point of contact, Eleanore Irvine, always ensuring all the details were attended to. The final report, produced under enormous time pressure, was still one of the clearest, most comprehensible and complete statistical analyses I have seen, thanks to the talented staff. I will be happy to use Fios Genomics’ services again in future.

Steven Piccoli, Head, Biomarkers – Clinical Sciences, Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company (SPARC)

We are regular clients of Fios Genomics and we value their professionalism as well as their timing in providing high quality reports.

Dr Valentina Paloschi, Postdoctoral Researcher, TU München

Fios provide you with a very nice data package, that is fully interpretable and allows you to draw meaningful conclusions.

Dr David Moffat, Director of Chemistry at Macrophage Pharma

To discuss a bioinformatic analysis project, contact us today! We are always happy to discuss your research and advise on everything from optimising experimental design with downstream analyses in mind, to how to include analysis methodologies in submissions for publication.

Author: Breige McBride, Content and Social Media Manager, Fios Genomics
Reviewed by Fios Genomics Bioinformatics Specialists to ensure accuracy

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