Voyage into the building blocks of life — adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine — the nucleotide bases in a molecule of DNA.
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Jim Eudy, Ph.D., Left, directs the Next Generati on DNA Sequencing Core facility with Alok Dhar, Ph.D., who is the lead technologist responsible for the wet-bench components and daily operations of the IlluminaGAIIx Instrument. |
The mission of the Next Generation DNA Sequencing Core Facility (NGS) is to sequence large amounts of DNA quickly and inexpensively, said Director Jim Eudy, Ph.D.
“It took $2.7 billion and a factory full of DNA analysis instruments 13 years to sequence the first human genome. With the latest NGS instrument, we can do it in 10 days for less than $10,000.”
Learn more about UNMC’s DNA sequencing activities in this article from the latest edition of UNMC Discover.