The DNASU Genomics Core Facility is located in the Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnosticsin the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. The core facility, established in 2009, has extensive expertise using Next Generation Sequencing for a variety of applications, including whole genome sequencing.

The Core facility, using Illumina as the gold-standard platform for over three years, has focused on Whole Genome Sequencing, RNA-Seq, DNA-Seq, CHIP-Seq,16S, Metagenomic and exome sequencing. The core facility relies on liquid-handling platforms (described in detail below), making 90% of our processes fully automated, thus reducing human error and improving data quality and reproducibility. Our core facility was engineered to be scalable and to adapt to higher throughput projects using our automation capabilities.

The facility has a team of technicians fully trained on Illumina and a PhD level bioinformatics team for data processing and analysis. Our DNASU NextGen Core Lab is listed on the manufacturer’s website as an officially certified Core facility.

Our facility runs all Illumina standard cycling formats for both instruments including single and paired end cycles depending on the experimental design and need for coverage. We offer several levels of data analysis ranging from file curating and return, genome alignments, do novo genome construction, small RNA analysis, protein-protein interaction and SNP calling.