Resources​

The CG platform has access to specialized equipment and analytical frameworks that enable us to introduce new high-throughput techniques into healthcare. 

We continuously explore emerging genomics technologies to facilitate the integration of genomics-based precision diagnostics and precision medicine in Sweden. Please note that only relevant equipment is listed and not all listed equipment is available for access service (User access service refers to a service that some nodes provide, where users, after receiving proper training and accreditation, are granted access to the equipment to operate it independently) contact us if you have any enquiries regarding our capabilities.

  • Automatic robotic systems
    • BRAVO NGS Workstation, Hamilton NGS Star, Beckman i5 Automated Workstation, Myra Liquid Handling Station, Magnis NGS Prep system, Tecan Fluent 480, Tecan Fluent 780, Diagenode Megaruptor® 3
  • Various systems for QC, quantification and fragment analyses
    • TapeStation, Quantification using fluorescent assay (Qubit, Quantit), Agilent Fragment Analyzer, Agilent Femto Pulse, Diagenode Megaruptor® 3 
  • Instrumentation for microarray analysis 
    • Affymetrix microarray, HiScan, NextSeq550, iScan
  • Instrumentation for Sanger sequencing 
    • ABI 3500, ABI3500 xL  
  • Instrumentation for library preparation including single cell 
    • Mission Bio Tapestri, 10x Chromium Genomics  
  • Instrumentation for real time PCR and ddPCR
    • BioRad qPCR, QIAcuity I, ABI QuantStudio 6, QX200 Droplet Digital PCR System, ABI 7500, ABI QuantStudio 7 flex  
  • Instrumentation for Multispectral imaging 
    • Saphyr optical mapper  
  • Sequencing platforms
    • Illumina (iSeq, MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq 500, NextSeq 550, NextSeq 550 Dx, NextSeq 2000, NovaSeq 6000, NovaSeq 6000 Dx, NovaSeq X)
    • Ion Torrent (Ion S5, Ion S5 Prime, Ion Torrent PGM, Genexus system)
    • Nanopore (MinION, GridION, PromethION)
    • Nanostsring (GeoMx, nCounter)
    • Qiagen (GeneReader)
    • PacBio (Revio)

Our advanced analytical pipelines undergo continuous enhancement through a national collaboration among various CG nodes, GMS, and other initiatives. Additionally, we have developed open-source bioinformatics tools for the wider research community. Here some notable examples:

Balsamic

Bioinformatic workflow for cancer (somatic)

bcbio-nextgen

Toolkit providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.

Chapman B., et.al, 2021. bcbio/bcbio-nextgen: (v1.2.9). Zenodo

bcbio-pharmCAT

Pipeline combining bcbio-nextgen, CNV-Z and pharmCAT for pharmacogenetic genotyping using panel data.

Sangkuhl, K., et. al., 2020. Pharmacogenomics Clinical Annotation Tool (PharmCAT). Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics107(1), 203–210

CMV resfind

Pipeline for resistance profile for Human betaherpesvirus 5 (cytomegalovirus)

CNV-Z

Tool for copy number analysis of targeted gene panel or whole exome sequence data.

Adolfsson E., et. al. 2023, CNV-Z; a new tool for detecting copy number variation in next generation sequencing data. SoftwareX, 24

DEGs2Venn

Single-cell RNAseq analysis pipeline

FLT3 ITD

Pipeline for Internal Tandem Duplications in the FLT3 gene

Fluffy

Hydra genetics (snakemake) workflow for hematological malignancies WGS

Fraggler

Fraggler is a Python package for fragment analysis that provides functionality for analyzing and generating reports for fsa files

Geneious_SARS-CoV-2

Plugins to Geneious Prime for analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes using Nanopore sequencing

GMS_16S

Taxonomic profiling of 16S rRNA reads

GMS-Artic

Sars-CoV-2 WGS data analysis

GMS Uploader

GUI utility for uploading sequence and metadata to the NGP

Hastings

Hydra genetics (snakemake) pipeline for rare disease WES

HCV resfind

Pipeline for resistance profile of hepatitis C virus

Hydra genetics

Framework for making snakemake pipeline development easier, faster, more structured and of higher quality.

insilico panel coverage analyses

Pipeline to produce insilico panel coverage analyses

LiSC

Single-cell RNAseq analysis pipeline

LocusDB

A simple observation count database to enable removal of recurrent, non-relevant genetic variation

Marple

Hydra genetics (snakemake) pipeline for inherited cancer capture panel

Methylation array

Pipeline to deliver methylation arrays to the storage system

MethylR

Free tool (web and container) for DNA methylation array (450K and EPIC) data analysis.

Volpe, M., and J. Das. 2023. ‘methylR: a graphical interface for comprehensive DNA methylation array data analysis’, Bioinformatics, 39.

Methylseq

Pipeline for bisulfite sequencing data

MIP

Bioinformatic workflow for rare disease diagnostics, implemented in Perl.

Stranneheim, H., et. al, 2021. ‘Integration of whole genome sequencing into a healthcare setting: high diagnostic rates across multiple clinical entities in 3219 rare disease patients’, Genome Med, 13: 40.

MRSA typefind

Pipeline for typing the methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

MutAcc

Tool that creates synthetic datasets to be used for quality control or benchmarking of bioinformatic tools and pipelines intended for variant calling of clinical variants.

NIPTviewer

Visualization of NIPT result data, mainly from Illumina VeriSeq NIPT Solution v1

NPM1

Analysis pipeline for Ultra Deep Sequencing of NPM1 exon 11

PΨFinder

Tool for detection of novel processed pseudogenes using DNA sequencing data.

Abrahamsson, S., et. al., 2022. ‘PΨFinder: a practical tool for the identification and visualization of novel pseudogenes in DNA sequencing data’, BMC Bioinformatics, 23: 59.

Path2genes

Conversion files for Affymetrix TAC

PatientMatcher

A MatchMaker Exchange node.

Rasi, C., et. al., 2022. ‘PatientMatcher: A customizable Python-based open-source tool for matching undiagnosed rare disease patients via the Matchmaker Exchange network’, Hum Mutat, 43: 708-16.

PGx

Pipeline for pharmacogenomics analysis

Poirot

Hydra genetics (snakemake) pipeline for rare disease WGS

Pomfrey

Framework for making snakemake pipeline development easier, faster, more structured and of higher quality.

Poresamples

GUI tool for selecting samples for Nanopore sequencing, creating sample sheets and customized protocols

raredisease

Bioinformatic workflow for rare disease diagnostics – nfcore community pipeline

rnafusion

RNA-seq analysis pipeline for detecting gene-fusions

RNAseq

Pipeline for the analysis of RNA sequencing data.

sarscov2

Pipeline fo a continual monitoring of Sars-Cov2

Scout

A browser-based tool for analysing VCFs. Functionality both for germline and somatic interpretation

SeqSphere

cgMLST for MRSA, N. meningitidis, C. diff

SIV

The sample ID verification pipeline detects possible sample swap during the WGS workflow

stranger

Tool to annotate outfiles from ExpansionHunter with the pathologic implications of the repeat

TC-hunter

Tool that searches transgenic insertion sites in a host genome, returns figures and a report to support these findings.

Börjesson, V., et. al., 2022. ‘TC-hunter: identification of the insertion site of a transgenic gene within the host genome’, BMC Genomics, 23: 149.

taxprofiler

nf-core/taxprofiler is a bioinformatics best-practice analysis pipeline for taxonomic classification and profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data.

Teloplot

Teloplot is a GUI utility for plotting of relative telomere lengths

Twist_solid

Hydra genetics (snakemake) pipeline for the GMS560 capture panel

wgs-somatic

Pipeline for somatic and germline variant calling (SNV, InDels, SV and CNVs)

WOPR

Pipeline for running whole genome sequencing clinical samples