About the WGGC
The West German Genome Center is one of four national Next Generation Sequencing Competence Centers and is a collaboration between institutes west of the 7.1 E meridian.
The WGGC is a collaborative network of Universities and institutes located in the west side of Germany. We facilitate centralized NGS services while harvesting existing decentralized NGS- and bioinformatics expertise of the WGGC partners. Such expertise covers most aspects of NGS research, encompassesing strong capabilities in human and medical genetics as well as onco- and plant genomics. You can find more information on the WGGC website: wggc.de |
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Who we are
Our Mission
NGS is the sole technology that belongs to the area of life sciences among the top ten most influential technologies for the next 2 decades. Making the WGGC internationally competitive is a clearly formulated goal. We support the concept of concentration and harmonization of NGS infrastructures at the federal level, while at the same time allowing for innovation at smaller partner sites in applications ranging from basic science to clinical application.
Our network structure
unites for the first time an enormous knowledgebase in genome research
from institutes with genomic technologies as central building blocks of
the University Development Plans. The WGGC partners share their NGS expertise at
different levels and recognize genomics research and technologies to be
central to life and medical sciences in the 21st century.
The WGGC provides an outstanding platform to advance collaborative research projects within both the WGGC and external collaborations.
