This distributed ICTS has the full spectrum of technologies necessary to quantify the set of elements that make up biological systems, including DNA, RNA, epigenomic markers, proteins, metabolites and structural elements such as membranes. It thus offers an integrated solution for deciphering biological processes through systems biology.
It is composed of:
The National Center for Genomic Analysis was created in 2009 by the General Administration of the State and the Government of Catalonia. The CNAG Genomics platform has a fleet of twelve second-generation DNA sequencers (nine HiSeq2000, two HiSeq2500 and one MiSeq) capable of sequencing more than 800 Giga bases per day, equivalent to eight complete human genomes every 24 h. It also has a powerful computer installation, with 2.7 petabytes for data storage, more than 1,200 computing nodes with a capacity of 13 TFlops, an internal network of 10 GBytes/s and multiple direct connections of 10 GBytes/s to the National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).
Metabolomic Platform of the Center for Atomic Sciences
The Center of Omics Sciences is owned by the Rovira and Virgili University and is managed by the Technological Center of Nutrition and Health. The integration in a single installation of multiple technologies in metabolomics and proteomics allows to use the most suitable technologies, or the combination of them, to determine the metabolic profiling. The methodologies of non-targeted metabolomics allow to postulate hypotheses that can be verified and elucidated the biochemical mechanisms involved, through the use of complementary ohmic technologies such as genomics, transcriptomics or proteomics and validation in vitro, in vivo and in humans.
