An in-house high-throughput DNA sequencing instrument.

在过去的五年中，DNA技术的革命性进步从根本上改变了生物学许多领域的研究方式。现在，从几乎任何种类的生物体中，都可以非常快速地生成和获取大量的DNA序列。变化最大的学科是比较基因组学和分子进化。该提案旨在为达尔豪斯大学比较基因组学和进化生物信息学中心（CGEB）的一组研究人员配备最先进的内部DNA测序机。这种被称为下一代测序仪的基础设施对于使这些研究人员保持在进化基因组学社区的前沿至关重要。此外，当前和未来的CGEB学员将从学习与下一代DNA测序相关的热门技能中受益匪浅

During the last five years, revolutionary advances in DNA technology have radically changed the way research is done in many areas of biology. It is now possible to generate and access enormous amounts of DNA sequences very rapidly, from almost any kind of organism. Among the disciplines that have been changed the most are comparative genomics and molecular evolution. This proposal seeks to equip a group of researchers from the Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics (CGEB) at Dalhousie University with a state of the art, in house DNA sequencing machine. This infrastructure, known as next-generation sequencer, is essential to keep these investigators at the forefront of the evolutionary genomics community. Moreover, current and future CGEB trainees will greatly benefit from learning the sought-after skills associated with next-generation DNA sequencing