# Research Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $401,868

## Abstract

SUMMARY 
The ability to generate, store and analyze high throughput genomic data is critical for many aspects of modern 
biology, and especially for human genetics. The Clemson University Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility 
(CUGBF) provides small to moderate scale genome analysis and customized bioinformatics services. The 
Clemson University Center for Human Genetics Genome Sciences Laboratories (CUCHG-GSL) supports in- 
house high throughput, large scale genome analysis, including third generation single molecule long-read 
sequencing and single cell analyses, as well as custom bioinformatic and statistical analyses of genomic data. 
The COBRE in Human Genetics will expand the scope of genomics and bioinformatics at Clemson University 
and the State of South Carolina by combining and expanding the genomics, bioinformatics and computational 
infrastructure and personnel of the CUGBF and the CUCHG-GSL under the single umbrella of an enhanced 
CUGBF. The expanded CUGBF will span the spectrum of next generation sequencing platforms, provide 
custom bioinformatics and statistical analyses and advice on experimental design, and genomics and 
bioinformatics seminars and workshops. The enhanced CUGBF will thus provide the infrastructure, project 
guidance and supervision, and training to empower COBRE in Human Genetics Research and Pilot Project 
Leaders and their laboratory groups to fully deploy extant and emerging genomic and computational 
technologies in their research programs. These services will also be available for all Clemson University faculty 
and their research groups as well as faculty in sister institutions in South Carolina. In addition, the enhanced 
CUGBF will host monthly genomics and bioinformatics seminars and hands-on workshops to train students, 
postdoctoral fellows and faculty to become self-sufficient in obtaining and analyzing genomics data. The 
enhanced CUGBF thus fills three critical needs for the wide scale adoption of modern genomics and 
bioinformatics research in an Institutional Development Award state: (1) local availability of genomics and 
computational infrastructure; (2) provision of molecular biology and bioinformatics services to investigators new 
to such large scale analyses; and (3) training researchers to become self-sufficient in obtaining and analyzing 
genomics data.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10808876
- **Project number:** 5P20GM139769-04
- **Recipient organization:** CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** TRUDY F. MACKAY
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $401,868
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-02-10 → 2026-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10808876

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10808876, Research Core (5P20GM139769-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-29 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10808876. Licensed CC0.

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