he Quantitative Genomics Facility (QGF) is a central research and service facility located in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) of the ETH Zurich in Basel, supported and run jointly with the University of Basel. QGF was established at D-BSSE in 2008 to allow researchers of the life science community in Basel and at ETH Zurich direct access to next generation sequencing (NGS) and complementary genomics technologies, and thereby facilitating the systematic quantitative investigation of genome-wide experiments.