Genomics Core Facility

NIDDK基因组学核心设施在成本回收的基础上为NIH内部社区提供下一代测序（NGS）服务，优先考虑NIDDK用户。支持该技术的其他资源包括咨询服务、用户可访问的仪器、生物信息学基础设施和安全数据管理。该设施生成的NGS数据用于研究项目感兴趣的疾病，如糖尿病、代谢紊乱、肝脏和胃肠道疾病。该技术的应用包括分析基因表达，确定DNA和rna结合蛋白的靶标，鉴定与疾病相关的突变，以及表征表观遗传染色质修饰。

The NIDDK Genomics Core Facility provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) service on a cost-recovery basis to the NIH intramural community, with priority for NIDDK users. Additional resources in support of this technology included consultation services, user-accessible instrumentation, bioinformatics infrastructure, and secure data management. NGS data generated by the facility are used to study diseases of programmatic interest, such as diabetes, metabolic disorders, and liver and gastrointestinal diseases. Applications of the technology include the analysis of gene expression, the determination of targets for DNA and RNA-binding proteins, the identification of mutations relevant to disease, and the characterization of epigenetic chromatin modification. The facility offers high-throughput, next-generation sequencing on the Illumina platform. Users are responsible for sample preparation. Support from Core staff includes assistance with experimental design and guidance on library construction. The facility houses a shared instrumentation laboratory and provides training for users. Instruments are available for sample shearing, automated chromatin immunoprecipitation, automated library construction, library quality assessment and purification, and real-time qPCR. Users provide libraries to the facility, and submit library information via the sample tracking website. Core personnel assess library quality, perform sequencing, assess data quality, and perform alignment. Data is returned to users by secure FTP. Users are responsible for additional analysis. The Core provides access to integrated software packages for NGS data analysis. As time permits, additional bioinformatics support from Core personnel may be available on an ad hoc, collaborative basis.