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.
Over 70 leading health care, research, and disease advocacy organizations that involve colleagues all across the world have taken the first steps to form an international alliance dedicated to enabling secure sharing of genomic and clinical data.
The CNAG participated in the study led by researchers from the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) that sequenced the genome of the famous albino gorilla. The study of the entire genome allowed to figure out that this charismatic gorilla was a product of inbreeding in the forests of Equatorial Guinea.
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The CNAG participates in the sequencing and analysis of deep ocean samples collected during the Malaspina expedition. The study has detected new genes with metabolic capabilities so far unknown.
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.
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 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.