BiRD

an open facility, and a collaborative hub, supporting life scientists in managing, integrating, analyzing and modeling experimental data.

BiRD is located in Nantes, involving research labs in Biology, Health, and Digital sciences.

Facility or Hub?

"I need resources"Facility

A service you request

On-demand access to storage, compute and training or support to run standardized analyses.

"I need a partner"Hub

Collaborations we plan together

Staff time and co-authorship to design analyses and build custom tools and pipelines.

Not sure? Contact us and we’ll point you to the right door.

News

12 March 2026, Gen2Bio - For its 16th edition, Gen2Bio returns to Angers on March 12 and 13, 2026 at the Jean Monnier Convention Center....

06 February 2026, Geek corner on Docker - The next Geek Corner led by Brieuc Quemeneur will take place on February 6, 2026, at 3 p.m. February 6,...

24 November 2025, GDR BIMMM days - The GDR BIMMM (Groupement De Recherche en Bio-informatique Moléculaire : Modélisation et Méthodologie - Molecular Bioinformatics Research Group: Modeling and...

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As a core facility

We offer access to a large-scale storage and computing infrastructure as well as training — resources you use on demand.

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Training in Bioinformatics

Distributed computing, CLI, bioinformatic best practices, R, bulk/SC RNAseq
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Storage and computing infrastructure

GLiCID regional resources : HPC, Cloud VM

As a hub

By being involved in research projects, we develop computational tools, workflows, and databases with you — a research partnership.

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Partnership in research projects

bulk & single-cell RNAseq, whole genomes, metagenomics, data integration, open and reproducible sciences
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Software development in Bioinformatics

SnakeMake and Nextflow workflows, Shiny data apps, FAIRification, etc.