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LUDC Bioinformatics Unit – areas of expertise

The LUDC Bioinformatics Unit provides researchers, students, and technical personnel affiliated with LUDC with bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational support. The unit also offers access to a high-performance computing environment.

For questions or support requirements, please see contact details on this page.

Link to webpage with more information about support and contact details

Bioinformatics support

Our bioinformaticians can help you with the following:

  • Study design (sample size, sequencing type, sequencing depth, etc.)
  • Reproducible and scalable analysis pipeline development
  • Programming (Python, R, Bash, Awk, Snakemake)
  • Selection of appropriate bioinformatics tools
  • Manuscript preparation (methods description, figures, tables, data publishing, etc.)

Bioinformaticians:

Mikael Åkerlund
Mikael Åkerlund's profile in Lund University's research portal

Alexandros Karagiannopoulos 
Alexandros Karagiannopoulos' profile in Lund University's research portal

Biostatistics

Our biostatistician can help you with the following:

  • Study design (prospective, retrospective, cross-sectional, longitudinal, case-control, case-cohort, nested case-control, etc.)
  • Selecting the appropriate statistical methods for your study design and scientific question(s)
  • Performing statistical analyses in R, SAS, SPSS, and STATA using reproducible research practices
  • Results interpretation
  • Manuscript preparation (statistical methods and results sections, tables, and figures)
  • Responding to reviewers (maximum one hour)

Biostatistician: 
Marlena Maziarz
Marlena Maziarz's profile in Lund University's research portal

Servers and high-performance computing

Our systems engineers can help you with the following:

  • Creating tools, webapps, and scripts for users and groups/studies
  • Programming (PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Bash)
  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, DB2, SQLite)
  • System administration of our server systems
  • General Linux knowledge
  • Installation and maintenance of a software repository for our HPC cluster
  • Maintaining backups of servers, databases, and all data stored in GPFS, our storage for the HPC cluster
  • Guiding and helping users who work in the HPC cluster environment

Systems engineers: 
Johan Hultman, IT coordinator
Johan Hultman's profile in Lund University's research portal

Matthias Jeppsson
Link to Matthias Jeppsson's profile on Lund University's website

Database management

Our database administrator can help you with the following:

  • Assisting and developing questionnaires/forms, ensuring they meet the requirements for entering and reporting of clinical data of varying complexity
  • Defining and creating datasets in the database for receiving, processing, and tracking data
  • Transforming/coding, cleaning, and uploading the collected data from different studies/sources
  • Controlling access to the database, setting data privacy, and ensuring data integrity
  • Generating data retrievals and summaries for national and international projects
  • Providing statistical summaries of data

Database administrator: 
Jasmina Kravić
Jasmina Kravić's profile in Lund University's research portal

Laboratory information management systems (LIMS)

Our systems engineer can help you with the following:

  • Configuration and maintenance
  • Setup of new data collections

Systems engineer:
Mikael Åkerlund
Mikael Åkerlund's profile in Lund University's research portal

Contact

For questions regarding bioinformatics, contact:
Alexandros Karagiannopoulos 
alexandros [dot] karagiannopoulos [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

Mikael Åkerlund
mikael [dot] akerlund [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

For questions regarding biostatistics, contact:
Marlena Maziarz 
marlena [dot] maziarz [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

For questions regarding database management, contact:
Jasmina Kravić
jasmina [dot] kravic [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

For questions about the LUDC-server, contact:
Johan Hultman 
johan [dot] hultman [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se

Matthias Jeppsson
matthias [dot] jeppsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se
 

Last updated: 8 Oct 2025