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About

High Throughput Sequencing Facility

Overview of Services

Welcome to the High Throughput Sequencing Facility at The University of North Carolina.  At the HTSF, our goal is to to enrich medicine and biological research with our state-of-the-art technology.  On this site, you can request DNA sequencing services using Oxford Nanopore Technologies or optical mapping services using the Bionano Saphyr. 

  • Oxford Nanopore Technologies:  Nanopore sequencing can read any length of DNA/RNA, from short to ultra-long. It is useful for applications such as de novo assembly, scaffolding and finishing, bridging repetitive regions, structural variation, SNVs and phasing, targeted sequencing, RNA analysis, metagenomics, and epigenetics.  A single flow cell can produce reads >100 Kb and provide up to 10 Gb of sequencing data. 
  • Bionano Saphyr:  Optical mapping can detect large-scale structural variations ranging from 500 bp to megabase pair lengths.  It is useful for applications such as de novo assembly of genomes, structural variation in genetic diseases and cancers, Cytogenomics, and scaffolding of sequencing data.  One Saphyr flow cell can produce up to 1300 Gb of data.

Leadership

Gregory W. Bowen |  Director, Integrated Genomics Cores | 919-962-4439 | greg_bowen@med.unc.edu

Piotr A. Mieczkowski | Technical Director of HTSF | 919-962-4471 | Piotr_Mieczkowski@med.unc.edu

Corbin Jones | Faculty Director of HTSF | 919-962-4443 | cdjones@email.unc.edu

Location and hours of operation

Location     Hours

1153 Genome Sciences Bldg

250 Bell Tower Drive

Chapel Hill, NC 27514

    Monday - Friday

    10am - 4pm

Links and Resources

  1. HTSF website
  2. Oxford Nanopore website
  3. Bionano Genomics website

Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
Piotr A Mieczkowski
Technical Director of HTSF
 
919-962-4471
 
Piotr_Mieczkowski@med.unc.edu
 
4256 Genome Sciences Building
 
Tara Skelly
Research Specialist
 
919-966-9180
 
tskelly@email.unc.edu
 
4244 Genome Sciences Building
 

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