The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis at UNSW was established in August 2000 as a focus for the development and application of Functional Genomics in New South Wales. The Centre is consortium of five universities and five medical research centres in the Sydney-Newcastle region. The
The Centre’s core facility is located in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales. This facility provides equipment and expertise to assist researchers in the use of microarrays, DNA Sequencing and high-throughput technology.
The Centre's expertise includes microarrays, both spotted and Affymetrix GeneChip® technology, DNA sequencing, robotics, high capacity PCR and yeast mutant knockout technology. Nodes at each of the participating institutions have built up complementary technologies and expertise for proteomics, analysis of gene variation, DNA sequence analysis and cell biology.