The Institute for Genomic Research is a not-for-profit research institute with interests in structural, functional, and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products in viruses, eubacteria, pathogenic bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes (both plant and animal), including humans.
The Institute is located in Rockville, MD, in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and is close to the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Maryland, and other research institutes and biotechnology companies. Institute facilities consist of over 80,000 sq. ft.
of laboratory and office space located on a 12 acre campus. The Institute has a large DNA
sequencing laboratory and has modern facilities for bioinformatics, biochemistry and molecular biology. |