About us
The National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) is hosted by Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), a Swedish national center for molecular biosciences with a focus on health and environmental research. We are a part of the Genomics Platform at SciLifeLab.
NGI is one of the largest facilities at SciLifeLab both in terms of the number of projects and number of users. It provides access to technology for massively parallel sequencing and genotyping at all scales, and associated bioinformatics support to researchers based in Sweden.
NGI was launched on January 1st 2013 and originates from the Swedish Research Council RFI infrastructure SNISS. NGI follows the VR RFI guidelines for national infrastructures and, besides SciLifeLab, we are supported by the Swedish Research Council (VR) and host universities. In addition, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has provided critical capital support for new instruments and computational infrastructure.
Our service to researchers
NGI aims to:
- Enable world-class research and industrial development in genomics.
- Provide access to both established and cutting-edge genomics technology.
- Assist users in project design, data generation, analysis and management of data.
- Support genomics research in all subject areas.
- Support scientists, core facilities and industry in all parts of Sweden.
- Support data-driven science according to FAIR principles.
- Attract and retain highly skilled staff.
NGI steering group
Stefan Bertilsson
SLU (Chairman of the Steering Group)
Anna
Hagström
Lund University
Elisabet
Carlsohn
University of Gothenburg
Åsa
Johansson
Uppsala University
Björn
Reinius
Karolinska
Institute
Afshin
Ahmadian
Royal Institute of Technology
Qiaolin
Deng
Stockholm University
Scientific Advisory Board
Piero
Carnici
RIKEN, Yokohama (Japan); Technopole, Milan
(Italy)
Lili
Milani
Institute of Genomics; University of Tartu,
(Estonia)
Holger
Heyn
Single Cell Genomics Team, CRG Barcelona (Spain)
Janine
Altmüller
Genomics Platform of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin (Germany)
Kjetill
Jakobsen
Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo
(Norway)
Mads
Albertsen
Center for Microbial Communities, Aalborg University
(Denmark)
Principles for prioritising projects
NGI prioritises projects on scientific and technical grounds. If a project is funded through a competitive grant, then a second scientific evaluation is not required. The technical review aims to ensure that the project setup is sound.
We take in primarily Swedish research projects. If your project aim is diagnostics, please contact the Clinical Genomics facilities at SciLifeLab. We take in foreign research projects given capacity, that is if we do not have any queue in the project application.
Selected projects are prioritised on a first-come-first-served basis to the furthest extent possible. Factors that can influence the queue times are the current load, availability of engineers competent in the specific protocol, and holiday seasons. You can have a look at the current load for NGI’s Stockholm node at the status update page.
Last Updated: 28th May 2025