Genoscope

the national sequencing centre uses nanopores for real-time ocean and soil metagenomic surveillance (e.g. nanoMDBG metagenome assembly).

Country: France

Coverage

	CN	EU	US
bioinformatics-omics	✓	✓	✓
ecosystem-restoration	✓	✓	✓

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Verifiable facts

Fact	Value	Source
Funding	Public funding through CEA, France Génomique, ANR, and EU programs, including a €41.3M grant for the ATLASea program (2024)	hal-hceres.archives-ouvertes.fr · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · cea.fr · france-genomique.org · genopole.com · scoop.it
Capacity	Equipped with multiple high-throughput sequencers including Illumina (NovaSeq, HiSeq, MiSeq), Oxford Nanopore (MinION, GridION, PromethION), and MGI (DNBSEQ-G400) platforms, supported by a 1700-core computing cluster and 1.5 PB storage, plus access to CEA computing resources	france-genomique.org · genopole.com · genoscope.cns.fr
Certification	Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with automated primary analysis pipelines and integrated QC systems	france-genomique.org · genoscope.cns.fr
Production site	Located in the Genopole biocluster at Evry-Courcouronnes, France	hal-hceres.archives-ouvertes.fr · cea.fr · france-genomique.org · genopole.com · genoscope.cns.fr
Headcount	Approximately 200 employees (CEA/Genoscope-reported estimate) or 37 employees (LinkedIn-reported data) medium confidence	cea.fr

Independent sources: cea.fr · france-genomique.org · genopole.com · hal-hceres.archives-ouvertes.fr · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · scoop.it

Technologies

Name	Cluster	Risk
Biodiversity genomics	ecosystem-restoration	Low	→
Long-read sequencing services	bioinformatics-omics	Medium	→

Compiled by BIOECON from primary sources.

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