BiOSS - Bioinformatics, Open Science & Systems

Missions

The BiOSS team undertakes several missions at the UMR scale:

Development and operation of computer systems, including user workstations, telephony, computing resources, storage, backup, and archiving.
Development, deployment, and distribution of analytical tools and databases useful to scientists.
Support for development projects carried out by the unit’s research teams.
Training scientists (from UMR and their partners) on the tools it develops.

System Division

Adrien Falce, Benoit Johannet, Olivier Langella

BiOSS ensures the development and operation of the computer systems for the entire UMR, including a computer park of approximately 200 workstations (60% Windows, 45% Linux, 5% Macintosh) and a 30m² computer room with about forty servers. The team promotes mutualization and common technological choices. BiOSS offers its expertise to propose effective technical solutions and to manage and enhance the scientific data produced by the GQE-Le Moulon teams (NGS, proteomics, etc.).

Software and data Division

Mathieu Brisson, Franck Gauthier, Pierre Montalent, Yannick De Oliveira

BiOSS develops several data management tools (Thaliadb, SHiNeMaS and DiverCILand) and analysis tools (BioMercator and OptimaRs), which are components of a global information system dedicated to plant breeding. Several instances are hosted on UMR servers and maintained by the team. BiOSS also aims to make these tools available to the plant science community through institutional repositories (forgemia) and efficient deployment solutions (virtual machines, containers, etc.). The team is also in charge of collecting, formatting and managing the data produced in projects carried out by GQE research teams, in accordance with FAIR principles.

Computing Resources

BiOSS manages a dedicated proteomics computing cluster (13 servers, PAPPSO team) and a genomics computing cluster (10 servers).

1 server managing 40 MySql and PostgreSQL databases necessary for the applications developed and maintained at Moulon.

BiOSS provides many web applications developed and hosted at Moulon (ThaliaDB, SHiNeMaS, DiverCILand, PROTICdb) to its teams and the scientific community.

We administer a 500 TB useful Ceph storage cluster that allows for allocating storage spaces according to needs and continuously adapting to technical evolutions.

Members

Former member

Delphine Steinbach Research Engineer (2016-2022)