The Omics and Precision Analytics Laboratory (OPAL) at GIFS is a premier platform for omics technology, providing world-class genomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics services to researchers and organizations across diverse sectors, including those in agri-food and other fields of research and discovery.
As a PacBio Certified Service Provider, we are a trusted source for HiFi data and analysis powered by leading-edge technologies, including PacBio’s Revio system for long-read sequencing.
OPAL includes the latest long-read and high-throughput short-read sequencing technologies. Providing end-to-end support, our team works with researchers from project design to the first extraction to the delivery of publication-quality bioinformatics data. Our team has knowledge and expertise in the management and delivery of a broad range of library preparation methods, sequencing approaches and computational analysis with a specialization in the following services:
- Assembly of large polyploid genomes
- Sequence-based variant discovery and genotyping
- Transcriptomics
- Epigenetics
- Metagenomics
- Bioinformatics
Supported by automated workflows and bioinformatics and visualization pipelines at OPAL, GIFS delivers high-quality data and critical analysis that researchers can depend on.
We are Open for Business
OPAL is open for business, and ready to serve your needs for detailed and integrated ‘omic’s and precision agriculture services. Reach out to us to learn how we can help at partnerwithus@gifs.ca.