The BiGEst platform is a network of platforms and teams providing bioinformatics services in Strasbourg. It is supported by 8 facilities from CNRS, INSERM, and the University of Strasbourg: GMGM, IBMC, IBMP, ICube, IGBMC, INCI, IPHC, and LNCA. Its missions are to deploy a shared computing and storage infrastructure dedicated to bioinformatics, to provide scientific and technical expertises and to organize training sessions to the scientific community.

BiGEst is actively engaged in the national research infrastructure: the French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB), the french node of ELIXIR, the European distributed research infrastructure for life science data.