Through a successful Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant the Richards lab consists of:
- two large DNA freezers
- robot-based DNA sample storage for the processing and quantification of approximately 22,000 DNA samples
We have a computational core consisting of:
- A Linux cluster of 30 nodes (10 with 20 cores each and 128G of memory,10 with 10 cores each (64G of memory) and 10 with 32 cores each (64 threads) and 384 GB of memory).
- All nodes are attached to a network array with 240TB storage.
- Our server room is monitored by video, has appropriate air-conditioning, flood control and access is restricted by monitored key cards.
This infrastructure enables us to undertake computational analyses of next-generation data arising from the several billion genetic variants in the human genome, derived from several thousand individuals.
