The GenoMik-Portal contains datasets and tools for the analysis of sequence collections, microarrays, genomes etc., and it is run by the "Bioinformatics Resource Facility (BRF)".

Powered by the CeBiTec_Infrastructure, the GenoMik-Portal provides access to more than 500 CPUs and several Terabytes of disk space.

The individual software packages contained in the platform have their own documentation

	Sequence analysis for larger contigs (GENDB).
	Sequence analysis for ESTs and shotgun reads.
	Microarray data storage and analysis.

Login to the Portal

The portal requires a user name and password from every user. The assumption is made that every individual has his/her own private login. If two individuals share one login and use it simultaneously, terrible things will happen to the user settings and data.

Users need to enter user name and password into the login dialog. Since the data is transported via https all traffic encrypted and thus secure.

Browser Certificates

Unfortunately not all institutions that issue certificates are pre-configured into all browsers. Therefore please accept permanently the CeBiTec certificate. Doing so will only influence your connections to Bielefeld, no other internet connects will be influenced. After accepting the certificate once, this question should not need to be answered again (Technical Information on using Browser certificates)

Request Access to the GenoMik-Portal

If you are a GenoMik-Plus member, you can request access to the Portal by sending an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . After validation the request will be forwarded to the Bioinformatics Platform. You will receive an automatic mail from our General Project Management System (GPMS) containing your login to the GenoMik-Portal and password.

Once logged into the Portal, you can request access to any project within GenoMik. See section "Data Access" below, for details.

Supported Web Browsers

Please note that not all web browsers are supported with the platform. For security reasons we recommend that users use Mozilla/Firefox or Mozilla.

While other browsers might work, we can not test with every browser to ensure compatibility. We strive to use standard D-HTML to ensure maximum compatability.

Data access

There are two major kinds of project "accessibility" within GenoMik:

• "your" projects:
  • either you are a project leader and thus have access to your "own" project data,
  • or you have already requested access to this project,
  • or the project has been made public within the whole GenoMik community
• "GenoMik" projects:
  • other projects within GenoMik not yet visible to you, but to which you can request access.

Access to projects is controlled by the project leaders via the GPMS web interface. All GenoMik members can request access to these datasets directly to the respective project leader via the Portal.

The General Project Management System (GPMS) provides the interface for requesting and granting access to projects.

Data integrity, data backup and recovery

To ensure the existence of the valuable data sets we perform nightly backup of all data on the platform. In the unlikely event of a disasterous system failure all data can be retrieved from backup tape.

Information about Tools

Some public databases are available for analysis with the Platform tools. In addition, all sequence data sets created within GenoMik can be analyzed with these tools. In order to avoid redundancies and facilitate maintenance, the Wiki pages for the tools listed below are described in our Wiki tools section.

Please note: Only those data sets that you have access to will be visible within the tool section.

• BLAST
• EMOWSE

Contact

Please feel free at any time to send us a email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with questions or suggestions for improvements.