The National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG, ''Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica'' in

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, ''Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico'' in Spanish) is a genome analysis center in

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that carries out large-scale projects in collaboration with researchers from Catalonia, Spain and the International research community. It has a park of last-generation sequencing systems supported by an outstanding computing infrastructure of 14 petabytes of data storage and over 10.000 cores of computing, which has enabled the center to build a sequencing capacity of over 10.000 Gbases/day, the equivalent of completely sequencing 100 human genomes every 24 hours. This capacity positions the CNAG as one of the top European centers in terms of sequencing capacity. It is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Government through the Economy and Knowledge Department and the Health Department. It is located in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) that is one of the largest research clusters in Life Sciences in Southern Europe. The CNAG takes part in large-scale sequencing projects in areas as diverse as

cancer genomics Oncogenomics is a sub-field of genomics that characterizes cancer-associated genes. It focuses on genomic, epigenomic and transcript alterations in cancer. Cancer is a genetic disease caused by accumulation of DNA mutations and epigenetic alterati ...

, rare disease gene identification,

infectious disease An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...

genomics, genomics of

model organisms A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the working ...

, agrogenomics,

epigenomics Epigenomics is the study of the complete set of epigenetic modifications on the genetic material of a cell, known as the epigenome. The field is analogous to genomics and proteomics, which are the study of the genome and proteome of a cell. Epigen ...

, modeling of the nucleus,

comparative genomics Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which the genomic features of different organisms are compared. The genomic features may include the DNA sequence, genes, gene order, regulatory sequences, and other genomic structural lan ...

and

single cell analysis In the field of cellular biology, single-cell analysis is the study of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and cell–cell interactions at the single cell level. The concept of single-cell analysis originated in the ...

. New laboratory methods, new sequencing methods and data analytical procedures implemented and developed continuously. The center offers the highest quality standards, accredited by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). CNAG has the UNE-EN ISO 9001:2015 certification with regard to its quality management system and the UNE-EN ISO/IEC ISO 17025:2017 accreditation, which guarantees its competence in testing. In addition, the institution also has the BBMRI-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecules) recognition, as an expert center in the analysis of biological samples that generates primary data under internationally standardised conditions. CNAG is certified Service Provider for Oxford Nanopore Technologies on the GridION device.

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CNAG
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Parc Cientific de Barcelona
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