The Bioinformatics and Computational Biology lab (BCB) lab was established in 2025 in response to the growing need for high-performance computing among researchers at EBD engaged in genomics and large-scale data analysis. Our mission is to provide advanced computational support to ecologists and evolutionary biologists, while also fostering the development of high-quality education and training programs in computational biology.
The lab operates a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster managed with Kubernetes and designed to run containerized applications using Docker. The cluster currently comprises 800 CPU cores, supporting up to 1,600 parallel threads, and provides a total of 3,512 TB of RAM, enabling large-scale and compute-intensive analyses.
We offer technical guidance and hands-on support for a wide range of bioinformatics applications, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and other data-intensive approaches beyond traditional “omics” analyses. In addition, we support researchers in scientific programming and statistical analysis for projects involving biodiversity monitoring, time-series analysis, database development, and predictive modeling under global change scenarios.
The BCB lab works in close collaboration with institutional IT staff, who maintain the network and infrastructure that support our computational research activities.
Contact: bcb@ebd.csic.es