The IGA boasts a new 400 square meters labs, hosted at the Scientific and Technological Park «Luigi Danieli» of Udine and and have two core facilities:
- a DNA sequencing and genome analysis core facility with three ABI 3730XL, one ABI 3730 automatic sequencers, and two Illumina Genome Analyser IIx. A HiSeq2000 has been ordered and will be delivered in Sept 2010. The genomics lab includes thermocyclers, liquid handling robots, chambers for the bacterial cell culture, and routine equipment. Benches can accommodate up to 20 persons.
- a computational biology core facility with a 64 bit diskless cluster system and a redundant SAN/NAS data storage system of 70 TB. The cluster consists of 180 CPU-cores, 16 of which have parallel access to 128 GB RAM and form a high performance computation super-node, 650 Gb RAM. The facility is completed by several servers for the automatic management of sequencing data and the net management, personal computers connected to the local LAN and a private internal communication infrastructure, accessible from the outside in a secure way.
