New $10m lab to boost Australia’s genomics push


Researchers across the country will be able to access a $10 million South Australian lab that promises some of the fastest and cheapest large-scale automated genomic sequencing in the southern hemisphere.

Jointly funded by Flinders University, the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure-funded Bioplatforms Australia and biotech company Decode Science, the laboratory will be capable of sequencing the equivalent of 59,000 complete human genomes each year.

Genomics is the study of the …

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