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Laboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis at the Vancouver Prostate Centre

The Vancouver Prostate Centre’s Laboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis is a multi-platform facility that provides research projects with services ensuring the successful design, execution and interpretation of microarray experiments. In addition to supporting the Vancouver Prostate Centre’s internal research programs, the facility provides its services to external academic clients, government and the private sector. The team is committed to excellence and provides extensive expertise in experimental design using microarray technologies.

The facility serves as the Genome BC Microarray Science and Technology Innovation Centre and supports research projects that make significant contributions to both the BC and Canadian economies, including the growth and enhancement of local biotechnology companies. The facility offers commercial (Agilent, Illumina and NimbleGen) whole-genome and custom high-density microarrays for gene expression, miRNA, copy number variation and epigenetic studies. Exon capture arrays were recently added which when integrated with next generation sequencing technologies, will make whole genome and targeted re-sequencing studies possible.

The Laboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis is recognized as an expert in the design and use of custom spotted cDNA, oligonucleotide and protein microarrays, and in the analysis of the resulting data. Moreover, the facility has added software that allows seamless cross-platform integration and analysis of expression, genomic and next generation sequence data making extremely powerful and comprehensive studies possible.