UCCRC Core Facilities:  Genomics Core Facility

Scientific Director:   T. Conrad Gilliam, PhD.

Technical Directors: William J. Buikema, PhD, and Rafael Gama

DNA Sequencing Phone: 773-702-1088

Functional Genomics Phone: 773-834-8420

Website: http://cancer-seqbase.uchicago.edu
               http://fgf.bsd.uchicago.edu
               http://support.uchicago.cc/index.htm
 
The Genomics Core Facility provides state-of-the-art microarray, DNA sequencing, and genotyping platforms with specialized databases for storing, managing, and manipulating both clinical information (phenotypes) and diverse types of genetic and genomic data (genotypes).  Expert assistance in the detection technologies, as well as adapting the resulting data to modern database solutions using high-speed specialized hardware and sophisticated commercial and academic software tailored for genomics and bioinformatics research provides UCCRC investigators who use the Facility with the highest standards of data acquisition, protection, confidentiality, and HIPAA compliance currently available to academic researchers.  The Genomics Core Facility is aimed towards both biomedical researchers who are generally unfamiliar with whole genome and bioinformatics approaches, as well as experts seeking sophisticated hardware, software, programming, or database solutions, or seeking to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations. Major goals of the Genomics Core Facility are to provide investigators with scientific and technical staff who can assist with or collaborate on individual projects, provide an educational program that allows investigators to seek their own levels of expertise and sophistication in a given application, and raise awareness of new directions and major discoveries in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics.