91ɫƵ Mellowes Center Facilities & Equipment
Integral to the Mellowes Center’s mission is provision of services that directly benefit 91ɫƵ faculty through education, research development, and professional growth. To that end, we utilize and maintain instruments to process samples, assess sample quality, advance research, and develop new technologies.
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Mellowes Center Facilities
The Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine occupies a 20,000 sq. foot facility on the 5th floor of the Health Research Center (HRC) within 91ɫƵ. These facilities have modern design, state-of-the-art equipment, and expert personnel to allow the efficient implementation of next generation sequence methodologies and analyses to Cancer Genomics, Non-Cancer Clinical Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Epigenomics, Molecular Pathology, and Rare Diseases.
Mellowes Center Equipment
The laboratory is equipped with instrumentation to automate, streamline, and miniaturize the processing of samples. This includes next generation sequencers from Illumina and Oxford Nanopore, robotic equipment for nucleic acid extraction and library preparations, NanoString scanners to process panel-based assays, Diagenode bioruptors for chromatin fractionation, and automated Chip-based methodologies. Likewise, the Mellowes Center’s Bioinformatics Unit can perform primary, secondary, and tertiary analyses of the ‘Omics methodologies using clusters within the 91ɫƵ research computing facility.
Sequencing Equipment
To facilitate global understanding of ‘Omics changes in the DNA, RNA, and other aspects of cellular and biological systems, the Mellowes Center utilizes several next generation sequencing and digital counting instruments.
Library Preparation & Liquid Handling Systems
To increase efficiency and reproducibility in workflows, the Mellowes Center employ several robotic instruments during the library preparation process.
Automated Extraction & Cellular/Molecular Disruption Systems
To extract nucleic acids, the Mellowes Centers has established several standardized and automated protocols.
Sample Quantitation & Quality Metrics
To ensure the highest sample quality and quantity is available, we take advantage of several resources to assess the parameters of each sample.
Computing Clusters
Acknowledgement of Mellowes Center Services in Publications and Grant Submissions
Thank you for utilizing Mellowes Center Research Services. Citations and acknowledgements are an essential measurement of how institutional investments produce academic productivity and will support the growth of research services at Mellowes Center and 91ɫƵ long-term.
'Omics Unit
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8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
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