Institute for Genome Sciences

Services - Cores

Maryland Genomics at IGS represents the combined expertise of four resource cores that provide sequencing, analysis, and computational services. As service requests are received, they are passed to the appropriate core(s) for processing. Links on this page provide more information about the specializations of each core. Email us or request information about one or more of our services.

GRC

The Genomics Resource Center (GRC) is a high-throughput laboratory and data analysis group with multiple genomic platforms.

GIC

The Genome Informatics Core (GIC) engages in research and development in bioinformatics and provides analysis services for multiple types of omics applications.

HPC

The High-Performance Computing Core (HPC) includes a computational grid, an internal 40-gigabit network, database servers, and the capacity to store 5 petabytes of data. The HPC Is available to researchers to run their own analyses.

MSL

The Microbiome Service Laboratory is a research service center located within the Institute of Genome Sciences. We provide start to finish services related to high throughput analysis of microbiome projects.