NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE - CANCER.GOV

Contact Information

Primary Contact

ohuiginc@mail.nih.gov
Colm O\'Huigin, Ph.D.

Location

Building 37, Room 4140 B
37 Convent Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Overview

The Cancer and Inflammation Program – Microbiome and Genetics Core (CIP-MGC) grew out of the former CIP Genetics Core to meet the increasing need for sequencing and analysis of commensal microbiota within CIP and NCI.

The MGC team specializes in:
  • Sample handling, purification, and 16S sequencing
  • Bioinformatic processing and computational analysis of sequenced reads
  • Support in genetics and statistical epidemiology 

Major Instrumentation

We use the Eppendorf epmotion 5073 and 5075 robots for the normalization of sample concentrations and sequencing library preparation and one Illumina MiSeq and one NextSeq 500 for sequencing.

Keywords

16s sequencingbioinformaticscomputational analysisGenetics and Genomicsgeneticsgenomicsmicro biomemicrobiomemicrobiome servicesnci-corestatistical epidemiology