National Center for Genomic Analysis

The National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG, Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica in Catalan, Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico in Spanish) is a genome analysis center in Barcelona that carries out large-scale projects in collaboration with researchers from Catalonia, Spain and the International research community. It has a park of last-generation sequencing systems supported by an outstanding computing infrastructure of 14 petabytes of data storage and over 10.000 cores of computing, which has enabled the center to build a sequencing capacity of over 10.000 Gbases/day, the equivalent of completely sequencing 100 human genomes every 24 hours. This capacity positions the CNAG as one of the top European centers in terms of sequencing capacity.

It is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Government through the Economy and Knowledge Department and the Health Department. It is located in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) that is one of the largest research clusters in Life Sciences in Southern Europe.

The CNAG takes part in large-scale sequencing projects in areas as diverse as cancer genomics, rare disease gene identification, infectious disease genomics, genomics of model organisms, agrogenomics, epigenomics, modeling of the nucleus, comparative genomics and single cell analysis. New laboratory methods, new sequencing methods and data analytical procedures implemented and developed continuously.

The center offers the highest quality standards, accredited by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). CNAG has the UNE-EN ISO 9001:2015 certification with regard to its quality management system and the UNE-EN ISO/IEC ISO 17025:2017 accreditation, which guarantees its competence in testing. In addition, the institution also has the BBMRI-ERIC (European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecules) recognition, as an expert center in the analysis of biological samples that generates primary data under internationally standardised conditions. CNAG is certified Service Provider for Oxford Nanopore Technologies on the GridION device.