School of the Biological Sciences Guide to IT and Computing


Options for web sites

  • Departments run their own web sites and you may be able to run your group or personal web sites on the same server: consult your departmental IT staff
  • You may also wish to use the Managed Web Service, which is one of the services available to institutions and groups from the University Computing Service (UCS). This requires you to have or obtain your own domain name. You can use any design for the web site you like though you may wish to use the University house-style templates, which you can vary within bounds.
  • You can now also use the Falcon content management service, again provided by UCS. This uses Plone. You use University house-style templates so it is suitable for University initiatives but may not suit national or international initiatives.
  • Some people need scientific applications interfaces. These are run on servers used for bioinformatics and computational biology. See information on the right. Examples include BLAST interfaces to private databases.
More computing resources
Bioinformatics and computational biology services
High Performance Computing Service
University Computing Service