our mission is to carry out large scale projects in genome analysis that will lead to significant
improvements in people’s health and quality of life, in collaboration with the catalan, spanish, european
and international research community.
Nature Reviews Genetics publishes this article by Marc A. Martí-Renom, the CNAG Genome Biology Group Leader, Job Dekker and Leonid A Mirny. The study sheds light on how DNA is organized in three dimensions inside the cell nucleus and how this affects the ways in which cells access, read and interpret genetic information.
The CNAG participates in the recently launched, four-year project BBMRI-LPC (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – Large Prospective Cohorts) aimed to enhance access by academic and industry scientists to the largest European biobanks.
The CNAG will participate in two new French projects on prostate cancer and Ewing sarcoma which have recently joined the International Consortium Cancer Genome (ICGC). With these two new collaborations the CNAG consolidates as the European center of reference on sequencing and analysis.
The CNAG is partner in this project on Asthma and COPD. This video highlights the various tests that patients will encounter to help personalise the treatment that they currently receive. The data collected from these tests will be stored in a central database and used to help monitor the risk to future patients.
The EU has funded with 38 million Euro four new projects for research towards new treatments and for the development of a central global rare disease hub involving 70 institutions that will allow to share data from genomic research projects.
The project, led by Paolo Ribeca from the CNAG, has pushed genome data analysis one step forward. GEM is a computer program that helps to find sequences in the reference genome, quickly and accurately.
Enjoy this four-minute video that explains who we are and what we do at the CNAG. A portrait of our staff, scientists, engineers and technicians with broad expertise in sequencing and data analysis, working hard to make our mission a reality: sequencing for a better life.