Meilahti Biodata

Established in 2025, HiLIFE Biodata Analytics Unit offers advanced life science data analysis services. The unit consists of three LSRIs: Viikki Biodata, Meilahti Biodata at FIMM and Viikki BI Bioinformatics. These LSRIs coordinate their activities and constitute the Biocenter Finland Helsinki Bioinformatics node, but also specialize in their own focus areas.

Meilahti Biodata at FIMM will focus on human single cell and multiomics data related analytics. Meilahti Biodata will connect to the HiLIFE Single-cell Omics and other data generating LSRIs who are currently both providing single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics and genomics data generation and upstream data analysis. 

Viikki Biodata provide expertise on diverse data and study types including for instance high throughput sequencing data, genetic marker data, bacterial MLST data, observational data, (spatial) mark-recapture data, time series data, spatial data, animal movement data, climate data and genome functional annotation. Viikki BI Bioinformatics offer services especially on protein analytics, maintaining and developing popular web servers for protein sequence/structure database searches and functional annotation.

HiLIFE Biodata Analytics Unit offers three levels of service: a weekly helpdesk for quick questions, short-term consultation and long-term scientific data analysis support. The Unit personnel also participate in organizing training in life science data analytics.