MRI: Acquisition of Next Generation Sequencers

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。核磁共振项目提供的资金创建了一个“下一代”测序中心，专门研究植物基因组学。国家研究委员会最近在一份关于植物基因组计划的报告中呼吁建立这样的中心。该设施将用于广泛的项目，从各种植物基因组和转录组的从头测序到表观遗传学研究。该中心将由Illumina GAIIx DNA测序仪和用于数据分析和存储的计算机设备组成。当然，人类和动物测序中心是存在的，但用于植物测序的专用仪器将是一个重要的发展，将极大地影响植物基因组学。下一代测序能力的提高将使植物基因组学数据的收集更加迅速。该中心极大地增强了可供植物基因组社区使用的下一代测序的国家基础设施，并对科学家使用此类设备的培训做出了有意义的贡献。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Funding from the MRI program has created a "next generation" sequencing center, dedicated to plant genomics. Such centers were recently called for by a report on the plant genome project by the National Research Council. The facility will be used for a wide range of projects ranging from de novo sequencing of the various plant genomes and transcriptomes to studies of epigenetics. The center will consist of an Illumina GAIIx DNA sequencer and computer equipment for data analysis and storage. Such centers exist of course for human and animal sequencing, but dedicated instruments for plant sequencing will be an important development that would greatly impact plant genomics. The availability of substantial capability in next generation sequencing will allow the much more rapid collection of plant genomics data. The center greatly enhances the national infrastructure for next generation sequencing that is available to the plant genome community, and contributes meaningfully to the training of scientists to use such equipment.