The Cornell Genomics Facility has provided unsurpassed support to the research community for over thirty years by offering a variety of innovative options and ensuring that your project goals are met and quality data is generated quickly. The Genomics Facility houses state of the art instruments for all your sequencing needs including, capillary DNA analysis, single cell applications, long read capabilities, a suite of Illumina instruments, and many more. We also provide many instruments that can be operated by you for sample preparation and quality control of all sample types. Contact us today to learn how we can help you move from an idea to publication ready data within your budget.

Services 

Standard sequencing technologies

• DNA sequencing (Sanger)

• Fragment analysis - Microsatellites

Next-Generation sample QC

• Sizing and quality assessment
• DNA size selection
• Extraction, clean-up, dilution, re-array
• DNA/RNA quantification
• Library pooling
• Digital PCR quantification

Next-Generation sequencing

• NextSeq 2000 (Illumina)
• NextSeq 500/550 (Illumina)
• MiSeq (Illumina)
• MinION (Oxford Nanopore)

Plasmidsaurus drop-box shipping:  The BRC Genomics facility manages a drop-box service for shipping samples to plasmidsaurus

Next-Generation sample preparation

• 10X Genomics single-cell libraries
• Indexing reactions and Amplicon sequencing
• Illumina libraries: Small projects
• Illumina libraries: Large projects

Visual explainer: Illumina libraries

Large vs. small projects

User-operated instruments

• Sonicator (Covaris E220)
• QuickDrop (replaces NanoDrop)
• Qubit 3.0
• Digital PCR (Bio-Rad QX200)
• qPCR (QuantStudio 7 Pro)
• SpectraMax M2 spectrophotometer/fluorometer

The Environmental DNA and Genomics Core Facility (EGCF), hosted in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, provides expertise and support for preparing and analyzing environmental DNA.

Consultations

We always recommend that you start with a project consultation.

Understanding your project goals helps us to make accurate recommendations. A consultation is also a great time to answer all practical questions to plan and design your experiment. 

Book a project consultation

Acknowledging BRC services and staff

If you publish data that has been generated with the help of the services we provide, mentioning the Cornell Institute of Biotechnology in the acknowledgments section is very helpful. Here is why. You can also review our authorship guidelines. Please reference the following Research Resource Identifier (RRID): RRID:SCR_021727