Through a successful Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant the Richards lab has built a dedicated robotic-based DNA sample storage laboratory for processing and quantification of thousands of DNA samples.
We have a computational core consisting of cutting edge servers, a cluster of 10 Infini-band connected Linux machines with 72 TB of data storage and 120 processors, each with 64 GB of RAM. The purpose of this computational facility is to enable the computational analyses of next-generation data arising from several billion genetic variants in the human genome on thousands of individuals.