National Genomics Infrastructure

The National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) is an internationally leading infrastructure in genomics and a unique and exceptionally important resource for the Swedish research community. NGI has more than 20-years of experience in providing large-scale genotyping and DNA sequencing as a service.

Significant efforts are made at NGI to evaluate emerging technologies and develop novel methods in the rapidly changing field of genomics.

This allows NGI to offer a unique combination of extensive consultative support (planning and project design meetings) and executive support (sequencing/ genotyping and pipeline analysis) for high-throughput DNA sequencing and genotyping to academic and industrial users in Sweden. Similar comprehensive services are not available from commercial suppliers or non-commercial genome centers.

The NGI facilities are hosted by Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) and funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), the member universities (KTH, UU, KI, SU), SciLifeLab and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and operate according to the guidelines of the VR Council for Research Infrastructures (VR-RFI).

In this application NGI applies for funds to further develop its genomics services by expanding its consultative and educational support and strengthen its technology development and incorporation of novel methods.

NGI here applies for 20% of its yearly operation cost (21 MSEK per year) and 20% of the costs for depreciation of novel sequencing platforms (4 MSEK per year).

Also, large computational resources are needed for processing of genomics data and the cost for the e-infrastructure (average 19 MSEK per year, as estimated by SNIC) has been included.

Genome sequencing and genotyping analyses represent a cornerstone biology and medicine, with a very wide range of applications, and NGI plays a central role in providing these cutting-edge technologies, enabling Swedish research groups to perform world-class research projects.