Whilst the Bioinformatics Support Unit  is in place for researchers to get advice on all their bioinformatics requirements there are a number of research areas and projects with significant bioinformatics components, which have involvement with the BSU.

With the Department of Computing Science:

• The Integrative Bioinformatics Research Theme
• Synthetic Biology at Newcastle
• The ONDEX system for integrating life sciences resources
• The ComparaGRID project
• Systems Biology Resource Centre
• Subtilnet Framework
• Microbase – distributed computing for comparative genomics
• InstantSOAP web service publication framework
• iGEM 2008 team
• iGEM 2009 team

With the Institute for Aging and Health:

• The Centre for Integtrated Study of Aging and Nutrition (CISBAN)

With the North East Regional e-Science centre:

• The Newcastle Campus Grid

With the Institute of Neuroscience:

• Code, Analysis, Repository and Modelling for e-Neuroscience (CARMEN)