Experience and Quality in Services

For over 20 years, Scionics has provided a wide variety of professional IT services. Our focus has always been to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the research of our clients using state-of-the-art technologies. Our highly qualified staff has the know-how to provide not only the most advanced technical solutions available, but also the experience to create solutions that will grow with the needs of the client. By making better technical decisions at the beginning, we save our clients time and money in the future.

Consulting

Scionics is dedicated to providing consulting and IT solutions to help scientists and scientific organizations reach their research and administrative goals.

Past solutions include:

Infrastructure and service structure design for scientific environments including staffing, hardware, and software.
Evaluation of existing IT solutions, structures, staffing, and resources to help organizations improve efficiency, costs, and effectiveness.
Helping research organizations streamline their communication with their IT providers to improve integration of IT with the research environment.
General IT consulting to help bridge the scientist to IT gap.

Pricing

Scionics provides consultation on a wide range of IT issues in half-day and larger time blocks. Larger time blocks are generally done as project pricing, which typically includes a discount of 5-25% depending on complexity and duration of project.

For more information regarding our consulting services, please send an email to: contact[at]scionics.com or call us directly at: +49 351 202 707 00.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing of IT services is a common element in private companies' structures aimed at reducing costs as well as improving quality and service levels through economies of scale and specialization. These concepts also apply to scientific institutions.

Scionics has significant outsourcing experience and offers services for parts or all of a research institution's IT needs, such as:

Infrastructure Support
Desktop and Client Services
Software Development
Bioinformatics

Benefits of Outsourcing

Outsourced services can be highly flexible and responsive allowing quick adjustments to needs and demands.
Outsourced staff benefit from the depth of knowledge of the provider and are not limited solely to the internal environment.
Interaction with other organizations can prevent the IT staff from becoming entrenched in existing processes or technology.
Staff have more opportunities for advancement, preventing stagnation and lack of motivation.

Bioinformatics Data Analysis Services

The Scionics Bioinformatics team has more than 10 years of experience analyzing biological datasets both large and small. On the small scale, we enable classical bioinformatics projects, such as predicting the function and evolutionary history of a single uncharacterised gene or protein using sequence or structural information. On the large scale, we can handle the datasets that result from global analyses using ‘omics data.

In particular, we have strong expertise in deep sequencing / NGS data analysis with typical applications including differential gene expression analysis for RNA-Seq data, peak calling and annotation for ChIP-Seq data, and de novo assembly and annotation of transcriptomes. All of our workflows include extensive reporting and quality control steps so that you can be confident in the data analysis we provide. A qualified bioinformatician will also walk you through your report to answer any questions you may have and suggest potential further analysis steps. We are also happy to discuss your specific biological question and consult on potential additional strategies that may be of value.