Epigenetics Sequencing Facility
Following a major investment of £1.65 million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) the Babraham Institute has established a new state-of-the-art genome sequencing facility at the campus. This new ‘high throughput’ facility will enable researchers to more rapidly and cheaply mine the genome for insights into how and why we get diseases, how environmental factors can modify the genome and potentially unlock the processes governing healthy ageing.
This facility is also a partner in an exciting new collaboration with the University of Cambridge, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute at Hinxton, the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre and next-generation sequencing technology companies - a new MRC-funded Genetic Research Hub. The MRC has invested over £7 million to support fundamental genetics research by creating three high-throughput sequencing (HTS) hubs in Scotland, the North of England and the East of England. This initiative will provide scientists across the country with access to cutting-edge resources for DNA sequencing and enable the UK to retain its world-leading standing in DNA research. More information is available on the Babraham Institute website.
The facility is also available to provide sequencing services to companies at the Babraham Research Campus.
