DNA lab to propel research on cancer and disease

IRELAND’S first genome sequencing laboratory is expected to release a flood of scientific knowledge about a huge range of illnesses.

The cutting-edge DNA sequencing laboratory at Trinity College Dublin will allow scientists to undertake studies in molecular biology and genetics research that, up to now, were neither technically nor economically feasible.

The Trinity Genome Sequencing Laboratory, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), houses an Illumina Genome Analyzer II – the first “next generation DNA sequencing” platform to be set up in Ireland.