The BrisSynBio RII incorporates a distributed research infrastructure and capabilities that underpins the University of Bristol’s synthetic biology research endeavour. This includes: Biosuite: a facility mainly focussed on supporting synthetic biology and related life sciences research. Additional work is also conducted with GW4 universities (Bath, Cardiff, Exeter and Rothamstead Research) and regionally based companies. BioSuite goals and objectives: With the wide range of instruments...

Bristol Bioresource Laboratories (BBL) provides a high quality, professional and responsive sample processing and biobanking service based at the University of Bristol. The expertise of BBL is underpinned by 25 years of experience in biological sample management for both large cohorts and small studies. The Quality Management System of BBL is ISO 9001 certified by BSI under certificate number FS 651591, which highlights BBL's commitment to customer focus and quality. A variety of sample types...

The Bristol Cat Study is a pioneering longitudinal study of cat health, welfare and behaviour. Between 2010 and 2013, 2,203 kittens aged between 8-16 weeks old were recruited to this unique cohort study. Owners completed online or paper questionnaires at recruitment, when their cats were 8 to 16 weeks old. Further questionnaires were completed when the cats reached the ages of 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 2.5 years, 4 years and thereafter at annual time points. More details regarding cohort...

Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives is responsible for museum collections across the natural sciences, humanities and arts amounting to c.2million items and also for 11 miles of archive shelving at the Bristol Archives. The mission of the service is to be excellent, resilient, valued and inclusive. Geology, Eastern Art and City of Bristol collections are 'Designated' as of international importance. Geology collections include 13,000 minerals, 3,000 rocks and 500,000 fossils. Strengths of the...

BRAMS is a new state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating facility at the University of Bristol, created to enhance the UK capability for ¹⁴C analysis in the biogeochemical, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological sciences amongst other fields. We are home to a MICADAS accelerator mass spectrometer; one of the latest generation of ultra-compact, high-precision AMS instruments featuring a gas capable ion source for the rapid analysis of small samples. The BRAMS facility is equipped with a suite of...

The British Isles continuous GNSS Facility (BIGF) is a unique and secure repository of archived GNSS* data, dating back as far as 1997. All data are in RINEX** files, which are quality-assured and accompanied by metadata, and also form the basis of derived products. BIGF serves all of these data, metadata and derived products to the complete user-spectrum - nationally and internationally across academia, government, and business - with impact on research and development, policy and the wider...

BLPES builds, curates and makes publicly accessible an international collection of material to support research and teaching in social science. It consists of over 4 million items in physical and digital form including books, journals, pamphlets, official publications, statistical series, archives, manuscripts and museum objects, with associated services to enable their discovery and use. Its research objective is the facilitation of social science scholarship through the curation of unique and...

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 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...

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...