Facility Details

The MidSouth Bioinformatics Center (MBC) at UALR provides computational and consulting resources for researchers and students in Arkansas. The Center has been instrumental in supporting the growth of bioinformatics within the State of Arkansas and the MidSouth region of the US. The MBC's primary clients are the graduate students in the UALR/UAMS bioinformatics graduate program, the undergraduate institutions and researchers affiliated with the Arkansas NIH NCRR INBRE program, and researchers at the medical institutions in Arkansas (the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, the VA Hospitals, and Arkansas Children's Hospital). Additionally, Center staff provide outreach and workshops on bioinformatics-related technologies to a variety of audiences and provides technical support to the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (www.MCBIOS.org).