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Genomic Core Facility: Role in Woods Hole COHH

Instrumentation

GenomicSolutions Mantis GenomicSolutions Mantis, for automated colony picking.


Array view of sequence data Array view of sequence data generated on the 3730XL.

Genomics Facility Core
The Genomics Facility Core is housed in the W. M. Keck Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics Facility at the MBL and directed by Mitchell Sogin. The Genomics Facility Core has budgeted funds for a minimum of 54,000 sequencing reads in 2004. Individual investigators have the option to provide resources for additional DNA sequencing reads and we anticipate significant escalations in future years.

The Genomics Facility Core provides more than simple sequencing services. The faculty of the Bay Paul Center, which manages the W. M. Keck Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics Facility, is committed to providing support and advice to WHCOHH investigators.

Three interlocking programs define the scope of research in the Bay Paul Center. They are:
  • the Program in Global Infectious Diseases
  • the Program in Molecular Evolution, and the
  • Program in Molecular Microbial Diversity.
Strategies and databases developed in the Josephine Bay Paul Center are applicable to questions being addressed by the WHCOHH investigators. The Genomics Facility Core makes available, as they are developed, technology advances that can reduce the costs of microbial population structure studies based upon DNA sequencing techniques.