Remit
Our aim is to provide bespoke Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) or high throughput sequencing and its bioinformatic analysis, to academic and non-academic biomedical research scientists across Wales and the UK. This technology is routinely used by both NHS clinical diagnostic labs and academic centres for work with cancer, inherited cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.
The Wales Gene Park will support colleagues from their initial project design, through grant application, lab work and data generation, through to its primary, secondary and tertiary analysis or simply support one of these steps. We work to ensure access to these technologies is at a reasonable cost to encourage effective uptake of this fundamental technology (see funding policy).
What we do
We currently specialise in making short read NGS libraries for illumina sequencers, using flexible library workflow protocols that work with a range of DNA and RNA input material to generate high quality and high yield libraries.
The genomics facility team offer sample QC, sample shearing & extraction on the Covaris ME220 and a conduit to short-read Illumina MiSeq, NextSeq & NovaSeq 6000 sequencers for colleague-generated sequencing libraries.
The Wales Gene Park team are currently introducing long-read sequencing protocols for the Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ PromethION 2 (P2).
Our funding policy
Wales Gene Park is funded by Welsh Government through Genomic Partnership Wales[SR1] , and our services are provided on a cost recovery basis. Non-collaborative workundertaken for non-academic researchers or colleagues outside of Cardiff University will incur VAT service charges.
Contact Us
We are located at the Wales Genomic Health Centre, in the Cardiff Edge Business Park on Longwood Drive, Coryton, Cardiff.
For enquiries, please contact Wales Gene Park at walesgenepark@cardiff.ac.uk