Microbiome and Virome Genome Analysis Core Facility

The microbiome and virome core facility of the Department of Medicine is operated by the Institute for AI in medicine(IKIM) and the Institute of Medical Microbiology.

The facility is co-led by Dr. Ivana Kraiselburd, Prof. Dr. Folker Meyer and Prof. Dr. Jan Buer. ·

Rendering Nucleic Acid samples into electronic sequences and their computational analysis. — The core accepts extracted nucleic acids, creates sequencing libraries for long and short read sequencing and provides computational analyses

Contact: eMail.

The facility provides high throughput genoyping capabilities using a number of laboratory and computational techniques including robotics and long and short read DNA sequencing technologies.

Examples are:

genomic shotgun sequencing of Bacteria and Viruses
amplicon sequencing of viral and bacterial genomes
amplicon based characterization of microbiomes
(meta-) genomic sequencing combining both long (3rd gen) and short read technologies (NGS)

The core works with various departments throughout the University Medicine Essen and the University of Duisburg-Essen and provides expertise in experimental design, sample preparation, sample handling, data storage and data analysis. The core provides a number of automated, reprocible analysis pipelines using SnakeMake.