We get a lot of questions about our service model. Here are answers to the most common ones. If you do not find an answer to your question here, just write it in the message form at the end and we will come back to you!
You only spend money when you actually need a bioinformatician, as opposed to paying for recruitment, salary, holidays, overhead, office space, computational infrastructure and software licenses every day, to name but a few expenses.
A service can be easily adapted to your changing needs, from periods of high-intensity analysis to the slower periods in between.
You can access the combined experience and expertise of a full bioinformatics team.
You do not have to deal with the daily project management of bioinformatics work, which requires a lot of time and expertise in bioinformatics. This is also a reason to (re)consider whether you should really be hiring a junior bioinformatician.
Hired personnel will sometimes leave for other opportunities; contracting an external team, however, always ensures a seamless service.
It is likely that we do. Our scientists come from a range of backgrounds, and our customers throughout the years have spanned almost every corner of academic and industrial life sciences applications. While every project is unique, we have probably dealt with data sets, analyses, and research questions that are similar to yours. Read more about our references here.
Our flexible service model enables us to assist you with nearly any bioinformatics-related query. As far as our lists of analyses go, there are so many different possibilities that it would be impossible to list everything we can do. The easiest way to find out is to ask us directly!
We always start with thorough data quality control, so that we can give you an early warning if we suspect that there might be something amiss with your experiments or data. The analyses themselves are conducted with top-of-the-range methods, and you can even request that we use a specific method if you want. Our background in academic life science research guarantees that we understand what it takes to conduct top-quality research.
It is very simple: just invest one hour of your time to meet with us, and we will provide you with a free quotation that includes a tailored bioinformatics plan for your project. Once you have this plan, it is your decision how to best utilize it, and to make your own selection of partner for your project. Read more about it here.
You do not have to define the contracted bioinformatics work in detail. We just have to understand how the data was generated, and what are your research questions. Then, we plan the workflow accordingly.
Yes, we can provide a fully tailored bioinformatics plan for your grant application along with a schedule and budget. Additionally, we can also perform preliminary analyses on your existing data or public data to support the application.
There are three options for getting your data to us: you can share the data files using any preferred file sharing service, upload the files directly to our server via an SFTP connection, or just send them on an external hard drive to our office (Mr Klaus Breitholtz, Genevia Technologies Oy, Hämeenkatu 14 C 33, 33100 Tampere, Finland). As a general precaution, always make sure you have local copies of the files as a backup before sending your data to anyone!
For a typical customer, we initially provide three months of our Research, Multiomics or Software service, with an option to extend the service on a monthly basis. The Enterprise plan is provided for 12 months with a yearly extension option.
We perform thorough computational quality control before moving on to downstream analyses. If there are any quality concerns, we will decide together with you on how to deal with them. In the case where the best option is to re-run the experiments, we can put the project on hold.
Absolutely! We will keep you up to date on the progress and will discuss intermediary results with you to agree on the next batch of deliverables and their schedule. We are happy to adapt to any changing requirements – your dedicated project manager is always there to discuss and implement your plans.
The short answer is that we can provide almost any deliverable that you may need. For a data analysis project, the default deliverable is a detailed project report with descriptions of our workflow and methods, results in the form of tables and figures, and our main conclusions. We can also customize figures and write text directly for a manuscript if you wish. In a software project, the deliverable is naturally the software along with all the relevant documentation.
Before we compose the final report, we present all our findings to you in order to make sure that you have understood everything we have done, what the results mean, and to ensure that you have received everything you need in the context of the project.
Yes, we are happy to help you not only to understand what we do but also to analyze the data on your own if you are interested in learning a specific analysis yourself. This happens through personalized training via teleconferences and by providing analysis scripts to use on your future data sets.
No, we do not. Our customers sometimes ask us to co-author, and we have been happy to do so in the past, but authorship is never required. It is, however, often considered good practice to mention us, for example, in the ‘Methods’ section of a paper. You can take a look to our own publications here.
Are you interested in learning more about our bioinformatics services or do you have any additional questions? Please get in touch with us!
Thomas LiuksialaCMO, Scientific Project ManagerGenevia Technologies Oy
