Contract & Consulting

Expert Bioinformatics
On Demand

From raw reads to publication-ready results. Fast turnaround, bespoke HTML reports, using deep expertise across genomics, metagenomics, population genomics, and phylogenetics.

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Bioinformatics Services

End-to-end analysis for a wide range of sequencing data types and biological questions.

Across the tree of life

🦠Viruses
🧫Bacteria
🍄Fungi
🐟Vertebrates
🐭Mammals
🧬Human
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Genome Assembly

De novo and reference-guided assembly of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. Short-read, long-read, and hybrid approaches.

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Metagenomics

Shotgun metagenomic profiling, binning, and functional annotation. Taxonomic classification from complex environmental samples.

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Amplicon Analysis

16S, 18S, ITS, and custom amplicon sequencing pipelines. OTU/ASV calling, diversity metrics, and community composition.

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Phylogenetics

Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic inference, ancestral state reconstruction, and evolutionary rate analysis.

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SNP & Variant Calling

Population-scale variant detection, filtering, and annotation. GWAS-ready VCFs and downstream population genomics statistics.

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RNA-seq & Expression

Differential expression analysis, pathway enrichment, splicing analysis, and visualisation-ready outputs.

Fast Results, Clear Communication

Quick turnaround and one-to-one communication.

⚡ Quick Turnaround

Lean workflows and focused expertise mean results in days, not months. Timelines agreed upfront with no surprises.

🚀 Priority 72-Hour Delivery

Need results fast? A priority surcharge is available for 72-hour turnaround on eligible projects. Just mention it in your enquiry.

📄 Bespoke HTML Reports

Interactive, self-contained HTML reports tailored to your data, easily viewable, easily shareable.

🤝 Direct Communication

I work directly with you.

Who We Are

Bluewater Bioinformatics is a boutique consultancy built on an uncommonly broad foundation of expertise, spanning organisms from viruses to vertebrates, technologies from Sanger to Oxford Nanopore, and computational approaches developed over more than two decades. Based in Aotearoa New Zealand, available worldwide.

25+Years in computational biology
10+Years with Oxford Nanopore
NZBased, globally available

Platform & Tool Expertise

Comfortable with the full range of modern sequencing platforms and bioinformatics software.

Illumina (short-read) Oxford Nanopore (long-read) Hybrid assembly R / Bioconductor Python Snakemake / Nextflow QIIME2 SPAdes / Flye / hifiasm IQ-TREE / RAxML DESeq2 / edgeR Kraken2 Clair3 / DeepVariant BWA / Minimap2 Linux / HPC clusters

Sample Reports

Every project delivers a bespoke HTML report. Click to enlarge.

Bacterial genome assembly and contamination review report
Bacterial genome assembly & contamination review
Eukaryotic gene recovery report
Eukaryotic gene recovery report

Describe your data and question and I'll get back to you within one business day with a timeline and quote. Happy to sign an NDA before any data is shared.