Welcome to the web site for the School of Biology Genome Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The School of Biology Genome Center (SoBGC) was established in 2005 and provides genomics services to researchers on and off the campus. Our center develops new technologies to address important biological questions that otherwise would not be feasible. Our successes can involve improvements to existing technologies or completely new inventions, both of which aim to increase speed and accuracy while decreasing cost.

The Center facilities are located in the Georgia Institute of Technology's Environmental Sciences and Technology (ES&T) and the Cherry Emerson (CE) buildings on Ferst Drive in Atlanta, Georgia. The director of the facility is Dr. Patricia Sobecky and Brian Lynch and Michael Humphrys provide technical expertise for sample analysis.

The SoBGC uses:

Applied Biosystems 3100 and 3130 Genetic Analyzers for sequencing and fragment analysis.

Microarrays are printed in a Perkin Elmer SpotArray 72 and slides can be scanned on the GSI Lumonics ScanArray 5000.

Other capabilities include:

A quantitative real-time PCR system (ABI Prism 7000 Sequence Detection system)

A Fujifilm FLA-5000 imaging system

A Beckman Coulter PACE/MDQ with UV/VIS and laser detection modules for capillary electrophoresis separation and characterization of proteins and associated carbohydrates.

To read more about our services, click here