Facility Location
5129 Plant Sciences Building
Brief Mission
The UM-IBBR Sequencing Core provides the research community at the University of Maryland (as well as off-campus customers) with access to 'Next Generation' sequencing. We feature an Illumina HiSeq1000 instrument, which can generate up to 500 million clusters, or a billion paired-end reads per run.
Hours of Operation
9 AM-5 PM Monday-Friday
Services and Technologies Offered
Illumina: Run times range from about four days for 50-base applications to 8 days for 100-base paired-end reads and the accuracy enables a broad range of applications, including but not limited to:
- DNA sequencing (DNA-seq)
- Transcriptome analysis (RNA-seq)
- Information about the Illumina technology and capabilities can be viewed at www.illumina.com.
Equipment Available
- Illumina HiSeq1500 and cBot Cluster Generation System
- Covaris SureSelect S2– High Performance Ultrasonicator for DNA shearing
- Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer – for sizing, quantification and quality control of DNA, RNA, proteins and cells
- Roche LightCycler 480 Real-Time PCR System
- Illumina Tier 1 Compute and Storage (60 Tbytes) System – Optimized HPC server for large scale genomic data processing, primary analysis and data distribution.
Contact
Suwei Zhao, Manager
Contact Email:
suezhao@umd.edu
Contact Phone:
301-405-5222
