The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) is a member of the Crystallomics Core (CC). Below is more information about the purpose of GNF, which is an excerpt from their website.

Focus:

The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation was founded to exploit the tremendous opportunity created by the sequencing of the human genome. This is being accomplished by creating a "state-of-the-art" technological infrastructure which brings together combinatorial technologies for chemical synthesis, high throughput cell based screens, forward mouse genetics program, mRNA and protein/peptide profiling, high throughput cloning and protein expression, structural genomics and computational biology/bioinformatics. These tools are being used synergistically in internal scientific and biomedical research programs in the neurosciences, immunology, signal transduction and microbiology/virology. The research environment is highly interdisciplinary and interactive; mutually beneficial collaborations with outside institutions are encouraged. Research programs are initiated by individual investigators with the goal of publishing scientific discoveries.

Location:

The Institute is funded by the Novartis Research Foundation, a Swiss commercial foundation. The Foundation has committed $250 million in funding and is building a 180,000 square foot laboratory complex in La Jolla, California. The Institute is currently located in San Diego, California (3115 Merryfield Row, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92121), near the Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute and the Scripps Research Institute.