isclogotitleMigale Bioinformatics Facility

We provide several services for scientists to deal with life sciences data



Open infrastructure dedicated to life sciences data processing



Dissemination of expertise in bioinformatics



Design and development of bioinformatics applications



Data analysis

Our Services

Migale, one of the Collective Scientific Infrastructure of INRAE, is part of the BioinfOmics Research Infrastructure of INRAE for bioinformatics. It is also a member of IFB (Institut Français de Bioinformatique), the French bioinformatics infrastructure and associated facility of France Génomique, the French genomic infrastructure for which we contribute to support different developments in bioinformatics.
A free account gives you access to work and save directories for your data, and access to the computer farm for your analyses.
The cluster farm is composed of about a thousand cores organized in different queues. We use the Sun Grid Engine queuing system for managing jobs.
You have a free access to our Galaxy server. Galaxy allows non-bioinformaticians to easily run tools without technical knowledges.
Command line tools, R packages and Galaxy wrappers are available on request and accessible to all migale authenticated users.
We provide an access to a large set of public biological databanks including whole genomes, nucleic and proteic sequences and other resources. They are updated automatically with BioMaJ or upon request.
We write tutorials to help you get familiar with tools, best practices, languages, etc.
Each year, we offer our "Bioinformatics by practicing" cycle. This cycle covers a broad spectrum of bioinformatics. The modules mix theoretical part and practical work.
We answer to the most common questions regarding the technical difficulties you can go through on our infrastructure.
Find all the ways to contact us.

New article: First step of odorant detection in the olfactory epithelium and olfactory preferences differ according to the microbiota profile in mice

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A collaboration with the MICALIS institute and NBO team has led to the publication of an article entitled: "First step of odorant detection in the olfactory epithelium and olfactory preferences differ according to the microbiota profile in mice"

The highlights are:

Metabarcoding Training - Roscoff

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From December 2 to 6, Mahendra Mariadassou, Cédric Midoux and Olivier Rué went to Roscoff to give a training course dedicated to the analysis of amplicon metagenomic data. This training was jointly organised by IFREMER and the ABIMS bioinformatics platform.

The 25 participants were trained in FROGS (bioinformatics and bistatistics) and dada2 under Galaxy environment.

Various presentations on metabarcoding were given by Olivier Chapleur (IRSTEA, Antony), Raffaele Siano (IFREMER, Brest), Marjorie Couton (Biological Station, Roscoff) and Angélique Gobet (IFREMER, Palavas).

New Article : Bioinformatics Tools and Workflow to Select Blood Biomarkers for Early Cancer Diagnosis: An Application to Pancreatic Cancer

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A new article for the ProteoRE project (Proteomics Research Environment) with our colleagues from the EdyP laboratory in Grenoble and with an IFB funding.
In this work we propose a Galaxy workflow  to select blood biomarkers for early cancer diagnosis in the case of pancreatic cancer.

New galaxy portal: galaxy.migale.inra.fr

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The new Galaxy portal is now accessible at galaxy.migale.inra.fr. You can now connect to it with your migale account.

This migration allowed us to update the configuration of the portal and thus follow the new best practices recommended by the Galaxy community. This revision concerns the configuration of web services, the automatic installation of tools and their dependencies (via bioconda).

Ba joined the team

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Mouhamadou Ba has just been recruited as a permanent engineer in the Migale platfom. He joined the team on October 2019 to develop text-mining services for bioinformatics.

A short self-introduction of Ba 

[Postponed] Planned shutdown of all services from March 30 to April 2nd 2020

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Due to the current health crisis, the planned shutdown from 30 March to 2 April has been postponed indefinitely.

 

Thank you for your understanding,

 

Access to the Migale bioinformatics facility will be unavailable from Monday 30 March to Thursday 2 April 2020.

Expected duration of interruption

Movements in the team

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After more than 18 months without any system administrator, we are very pleased to welcome Damien Berry from January 2020. He was previously system administrator in the INRAE MIAT laboratory in Toulouse. His first task will consist in reorganizing the centralized storage of Migale.

Welcome Damien !