Genomics platform (PGEN)
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Technical and scientific expertise
- Sequencing (Sanger, NGS)
- Genotyping (micro array, fragment analysis)
- Molecular karyotyping (micro array)
- Bioinformatics (exomes [WES], genomes [WGS], gene panels [panels], transcriptome [RNAseq])
Main equipment
- Illumina MiSeq sequencer
- Ion Torrent Ion Proton sequencer and an Ion Chef for sample preparation
- HPC cluster for bioinformatics processing of NGS data (WES, WGS, panels, RNASeq)
- Affymetrix microarray platform
- Sanger sequencer and fragment analyser
- Contracts for outsourcing WES, WGS and RNAseq, according to public procurement regulations
- Highlander software, developed in-house, for variant analysis from NGS data
Applications
- Genetics
- Biology
- Medicine
- Clinical diagnostics
- Personalised medicine
- Virology
- Agronomy
Services available to
- UCLouvain students and researchers (access to equipment and technical support)
- Non-UCLouvain parties