In order to address their key strategic areas of improving food security, increasing crop productivity, Agricultural Research Council recently made two large investments.

The first in a complete High-Throughput Sequencing platform solution allowing them to incorporate both NGS and advanced genotyping technologies into a single instrument.

The second investment was made in the area of bioinformatics – hardware and software. The core of this investment sits with an enterprise platform enabling them to effiently distribute genomics tools and bioinformatics analysis throughout the ARC – spread accross nearly 2000 km of geographical space.