The Bioinformatics Core Facility was established in 2018, along with the entry of large-scale sequencing technologies into the daily research activities of BMC. The service centre was created with the aim to combine the knowledge that was available to the institute’s researchers, create a favourable environment for the exchange of ideas and experience, provide all researchers with support in data analysis, build a local data analysis and storage infrastructure, as well as create mechanisms for the further dissemination of knowledge at the institute and national level.

From its establishment until 2023, the staff of the Bioinformatics Service Center has grown from the initial three field enthusiasts to 11 highly qualified specialists, whose range of accumulated knowledge covers whole genome sequencing analysis, reconstruction of new genomes, and microorganism population structure data analysis, analyzes of population-scale genotyping data and many others, which includes the application of artificial intelligence models to search for novel gene functions. To provide the necessary computing power and data storage capacity the staff of the service centre manages several high-performance computing nodes and disk arrays, however, most of the computing activities are carried out remotely in cooperation with various European high-performance computing centres.