The Norwegian Genotyping and Sequencing Consortium

The Norwegian Genotyping and Sequencing Consortium (NGSC) is pleased to offer the Norwegian research community its competence in genotyping and high throughput sequencing. In 2003 the Research Council of Norway sponsored the founding of research platforms whose mandate was to establish themselves, develop competence, and provide expertise to the National research community. To build on the success of this endeavour, from 2008, platforms complementary in the area of sequencing and genotyping will be consolidated as the NGSC. The goal of this structure is to provide genotyping and sequencing services of a competitively high standard at minimum cost to Norwegian and collaborating international researchers.

Six platforms form the consortium; although physically and operationally independent, with established areas of specialization, these platforms share common technologies and competence. Under Services in the left column you will find an overview of the various service elements and a listing of the equipment currently possessed by the various nodes.

The nodes have agreed upon the division of labour scheme outlined below:

Genotyping and associated statistical analysis

Human material

  • High SNP numbers:
    • The Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Genotyping Core Facitility assisted by the NMC nodes in Trondheim and Bergen and Centre for Integrative Genetics on genotyping and Department of Biostatistics, UiO, on statistical analyses.
  • Medium SNP numbers:
    • NMC Trondheim
  • Moderate SNP numbers:
    • Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE) (genotyping + statistical analyses)

Non-human material

  • High SNP numbers:
    • Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE) (genotyping + statistical analyses)
  • Moderate SNP numbers:
    • Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE) (genotyping + statistical analyses)

Sequencing and associated bioinformatics

  • Any material:
    • Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) (assisted by CIGENE in connection with SNP detection and sequence capture methodology and by the FUGE bioinformatics platform in other bioinformatical matters.
    • Institute and Department of Medical Genetics (UiO, Ullevål)

Note: We are in the process of developing a national statistical service involving all universities. A framework is also under development whereby user projects (especially large projects and/or time-consuming projects) are shared among the NGSC members.