Behind the ABC - Who we are

We organize the cafe as a collaboration between the Danish Health Data Science Sandbox, the Core Bioinformatics Facility, and PhD students whose fields touch bioinformatics and health data science.

Our shared email address for general enquiries about the cafe is abcafe au.dk (with the @ in between).

People	What do I do
	Per Qvist: Ass.Prof. at AU biomed, leads as well the Core Bioinformatics Facility. Most importantly, has been managing constant cake and drinks flow to the ABC, which has been making him invaluable to all participants!
	Marie Sønderstrup: Phd Student at The department of biomedicine. Is the inspirator of the ABC, after living through the deep frustration of understanding how to code.
	Manuel Peral Vazquez: Phd Student at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Cellular Health, Intervention, and Nutrition. He loves to dig into the amenities of the bash command line and trying out interesting things.
	Samuele Soraggi: Special consultant at the department of bioinformatics after a migration from the field of mathematics. He often throws himself to unknown buggy pieces of code with duct tape and a hammer until they work. When he does not succeed, he deletes them and empty the trash bin.
	Dimitrios Pediotidis-Maniatis: Consultant at the bioinformatics core facility. Probably the person with the highest attendance to the ABC! He masters a lot of things in bash and R - test him out!
	jacob Egemose Høgfeldt: He is also consultant at the bioinformatics core facility, and knows a great deal of bioinformatics and data science. He is the absolute go-to person for bulkRNA sequencing questions together with Dimitrios.

Beyond the ABC - in depth bioinformatics support

Some of us work at Aarhus University as consultants, providing support for various HPC and bioinformatics topics and analysis, in two different ways:

Who	Help and contact
	Samuele from the Health Data Science Sandbox provides some free consultancy hours for technical issues, bioinformatics setup for coding and perform analysis, machine learning practices, both on PC and computing cluster, and organizes a wide array of workshops, both on demand and on own initiative. You can book a short meeting with Samuele here to introduce the problem and setup eventual solutions, or write at samuele birc.au.dk (with @ in between).
	Dimitrios and Jacob work at the Bioinformatics Core Facility, led by Ass. Prof. Per Qvist. They offer expert assistance in a wide range of bioinformatics services, including data analysis, storage, visualization and advice on experiment design. The Bioinformatics Core Facility primarily operate on a fee for service model of data analysis but also offer full joint scientific collaborations and training. You can find more details, including project examples and pricing, on their website (https://biomed.au.dk/bioinformatics-core-facility). Feel free to reach out for a free initial consultation regarding your projects by emailing to bioinformatics [at] biomed.au.dk.