Resource Laboratories

Information on laboratories holding significant genetic resources (alphabetical order)

• Biorepository Directory - extensive, mostly USA based: “Searchable biorepository database. Repositories are listed in alphabetical order. Over 35 listed.” - http://www.genvault.com/co/bio.htm
• CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Overview of CDC priorities in genomics and population health 2003. Newborn Screening Program. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) DNA Bank. Prevalence of gene variants that code for enzymes involved in nicotine and carcinogen metabolism. Churchill County Leukemia Cluster Investigation. The National Birth Defects Prevention Study Centralized Laboratory. Genetics of Kidneys in Diabetes (GoKinD) Study. Case-control study of environmental exposures and genetic susceptibility among individuals with multiple sclerosis living in three geographic areas . .” - http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/activities/ogdp/2004/eoipcoc.htm 
• Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research (CIGMR) UK: “CIGMR is based within The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences of The University of Manchester, UK. CIGMR functions as a genomics research resource centre, providing a wide range of key competencies and sophisticated technical platforms supporting academic and clinical groups, University spin-out companies, SMEs and the biotech community including pharma.” - http://cigmr.man.ac.uk/ 
• Coriell Cell Repositories: “The Coriell Cell Repositories house the world's largest collection of human cell cultures. A cell repository, or cell bank, is a collection of living cells maintained indefinitely at extremely low temperatures in a state of suspended animation." - http://www.coriell.org/ccr/ccrsumm.html
• European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC): “The collections currently hold over 40,000 cell lines representing 45 different species, 50 tissue types, 300 HLA types, 450 monoclonal antibodies and at least 800 genetic disorders." - http://www.ecacc.org.uk/default.asp?Reload=services.asp
• HGDP-CEPH Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel: "A resource of 1064 cultured lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) from 1051 individuals in 51 different world populations and corresponding milligram quantities of DNA is banked at the Foundation Jean Dausset (CEPH) in Paris." http://www.cephb.fr/HGDP-CEPH-Panel/
• Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA: “ISB was co-founded in 2000 in Seattle, Washington by Dr. Leroy Hood, an immunologist and technologist; Dr. Alan Aderem, an immunologist and Dr. Reudi Aebersold, a protein chemist. It has since grown to more than 170 staff members, including eleven faculty members and laboratory groups. It has established facilities for DNA sequencing, genotyping, DNA arrays and cell separations. The Institute emerged as a result of the new research model called systems biology a revolutionary approach to analyzing biological complexity and understanding how biological systems function. The Institute has brought together a multidisciplinary group of scholars and scientists, from biologists, mathematicians and engineers, to computer scientists and physicists, in an interactive and collaborative environment.” - http://www.systemsbiology.org/ 
• KI Biobank: "A national biobank for collection, handling and storage of human biological material has been established at Karolinska Institutet. This non-commercial resource aims to promote scientific excellence within molecular and genetic research in Sweden." - http://www.meb.ki.se/biobank/about.php
• Rockefeller University Genomics Resource Center: "The Genomics Resource Center was established in December 2004 by combining the two previous resource centers, Gene Array and Genotyping." - http://www.rockefeller.edu/genomics/