CCDU

Collaborative Computing Data Unit (CCDU)

The Collaborative Computing & Data Unit (CCDU) provides a rich computing, data infrastructure, and Bioinformatics Analysis to support the academic, research, and administrative activities of CCMB. The CCDU is comprised of the Bioinformatics Core and the IT Computing Core.

CCMB is linking campus, state, and national resources to CCMB and Bioinformatics Program Faculty through a number of Centers and National Partnerships.

Bioinformatics Core

The CCDU Core Bioinformatics group was created in 2008 with the goal to provide professional bioinformatics support to UMMS researchers. Our areas of expertise include systems biology applications, analytical methods, data access and integration.

 IT Computing Core

CCDU supports multiple high performance computing clusters and provides access to clusters through partnerships with the College of Engineering's Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) and national supercomputing centers. CCDU hosts and manages more than 50 Terabytes of storage and databases housed at Palmer Commons, Green Court, and the Arbor Lakes computing facilities.

This infrastructure is maintained and supported by the CCMB to provide biomedical computation support to researchers in the School of Medicine (UMMS).

Networking is provided by the UM campus backbone with high speed networking available through alliances with Internet2 and Michigan Lambda Rail.

Mission

Our mission is to provide high quality, custom bioinformatics support to researchers using our expertise in computational methods such as data mining and analysis, and algorithm development.  We will utilize knowledge extraction tools that are being developed by the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI), as well as other high quality applications and tools developed in the bioinformatics community, and enable and promote the use of those tools by the U of M researchers.