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Genoscope - Centre National de Séquençage - is the first large biological facility of its type in France: analogous to large telescopes for astronomy or particle accelerators for physics, its services are available to the scientific community at large, within the framework of collaborative projects with public sector laboratories, or contracts with the private sector. In parallel, the center has its own projects.
The mission of Genoscope is to produce and interpret large volumes of high-quality sequence data. The genomes sequenced and analyzed belong to diverse organisms (microbes, plants, animals, humans) of scientific, medical or economic interest. An essential portion of the activity of the center is the development of informatic methods for the analysis and comparison of genomes; these research activities are organized within the framework of a Mixed Research Unit ("Unité mixte de recherche", UMR) of the CNRS. At the end of February 2003, Genoscope had 153 employees (full-time equivalents).

 

The Genomic-Info Research Unit (Unité de Recherche Génomique Info - URGI) is an INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) bioinformatics laboratory dedicated to plant genomics.

Created in 2002, URGI develops and hosts genomics information system for INRA plants biology. To achieve this mission, URGI maintains an efficient computing environment combining both local data integration for high throughput computation and shared data integration through Web Services.

Services offered cover database conception, software engineering, software hosting, data integration, genomics annotation support and bioinformatics. Scientific domains covered are genomics, transcriptomics, genetic, proteomics and polymorphism data, through an integrative approach. Biological scope includes plants models, cultivated plants, and crops parasites (Fungi, Aphid).

 

INRA is the leading European agricultural research institute and one of the foremost institutes in the world for agriculture, food and the environment. It is also the second largest public research institute in France.

Founded in 1946, the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) is a mission-oriented public research institution under the joint authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
The research conducted at INRA concerns agriculture, food, nutrition and food safety, environment and land management, with particular emphasis on sustainable development.

Its principal goals:
producing and disseminating scientific knowledge
developing innovations and know-how for the benefit of society
through its expertise, informing decision-making by public and private sector players
promoting scientific and technical culture and participating in the science/society debate
training in and through research.

Partnerships
A large number of partnerships and exchanges with the international scientific community in numerous countries in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

INRA has an active partnership policy with:

the scientific world: higher education and research organisations
the socio-economic world: private companies, agricultural organisations
local authorities
public authorities which call upon the expertise of INRA scientists on the national, European and international levels.

Human resources: 1840 researchers, 2360 engineers, 4640 technicians and administrative staff, 1200 doctoral students and 1000 foreign trainees and researchers.

Organisation: 14 scientific departments, 21 regional research centres

Budget for 2005: €680 million

Status: public scientific and technological establishment (EPST)