McGill Applied Genomics Innovation Core (MAGIC)

The McGill Genome Centre houses state-of-the-art equipment and multidisciplinary expertise in molecular biology, genetics, epigenomics, biostatistics, population genomics, bioinformatics and other areas that are required to design genomic studies, and to produce, manage and interpret large amounts of biological data generated at low cost and with high quality.

Our supporting infrastructure includes latest sequencers from Illumina, MGI, Pacific Biosciences, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and Life Technologies. All sequencers are supported by process automation. Most of the current commonly employed Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) assay protocols have been introduced into the production pipelines including ChIPseq, RNAseq, Exome-seq, WGS, WGBS, and other epigenomic protocols. Standard operating procedures have been defined for all experimental steps and workflows are LIMS-controlled.