BOSCORF is the UK’s national deep-sea sediment core research facility and provides a unique and strategic service to the environmental science community. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art non-destructive core logging and analysis capability that is unique in the UK. BOSCORF also provides specialised long-term sediment core storage facilities, so that sediment cores collected by NERC ships, and NERC- funded researchers, can be kept under optimum conditions to ensure long-term preservation...

The British Regional Heart Study (BRHS) is a prospective study in middle-aged men drawn from general practices in 24 British towns, recruited in 1978-1980. It was set up to determine the factors responsible for the considerable variation in coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke in Great Britain. It also seeks to determine the causes of these conditions in order to provide a rational basis for recommendations towards their prevention.

The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in the multimedia annotation tool ELAN. The video clips were collected as part of the original BSL Corpus Project, funded between 2008 and 2011 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The BSL Corpus is based at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), University College...

The Cambridge Blood and Stem Cell Biobank (CBSB) was established in 2009 as a research resource providing normal and diseased blood and blood related products. CBSB supports multiple research programs, and a number of clinical trials in the UK, and is funded by the Cambridge Cancer Centre, the Cambridge MRC/Wellcome Trust Stem Cell Institute, various clinical trial funders and cost recovery. CBSB is designed to predict and respond to research needs, including prospective sample and data...

CSD3 is a multi-institution service underpinned by an innovative, petascale, data-centric HPC platform, designed specifically to drive data-intensive simulation and high-performance data analysis. The new service constitutes a major addition to the UK national e-infrastructure, which will enable large scale simulation and next generation data analytics capability for researchers across a broad range of disciplines. The CSD3 platform has been co-designed with DELL EMC, Intel and NVIDIA. A non...

The Cambridge Single Cell Analysis Clinical Core Facility is a regional and national hub for single cell analysis for biomedical research set up in 2016 with capital funding from the MRC. It is situated within the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust with the Babraham Institute, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, European Bioinformatics Institute, the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology and major pharma and biotech companies as strategic partners, building on the...

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden holds a plant collection of over 8000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate teaching and research. The Garden provides resources including plant material, horticultural expertise and facilities to research workers and lecturers. Since its foundation, however, the Botanic Garden has also provided a beautiful place for everybody to enjoy and benefit from - a series of wonderful landscapes through which to discover the drama of plant diversity...

The Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE), part of the Department of Plant Sciences, is an internationally significant collection of over 1.1 million dried, pressed, and mounted plant specimens. Dating back at least as far as 1703, specimens from around the world have been added to the collection as a result of purchases, gifts, exchanges and benefactions.

The collection is particularly historically and taxonomically important, with one of the best collections of British material in the...

What we do: Cambridge University Libraries forms one of the world's leading research libraries providing access to and support for national and international scholarship based on its research collections. The main University Library is a flagship research library; working within a distributed network of faculty, departmental and College libraries which together form the rich collections for international scholarship.

Who can use the service?: The main University Library is open to all...

CMDL provides detailed molecular genetic profiling of tumours working under Good Clinical and Laboratory Practice (GCLP) and ISO 15189:2012 guidelines. This accurate, sensitive, high-throughput genomic assay allows rapid and cost-effective molecular diagnostic service to profile oncogenic DNA alterations in clinical solid tumour samples. A single test to detect a large range of events, saving time, money and precious tissue material. Working together with data scientist and software developers...