The Quantum Technology Centre cleanrooms, based in Lancaster University’s Physics Department, establish a significant technology presence in the Northwest. Our world class facilities include a class 100 and two class 1000 clean rooms housing state-of-the-art nanofabrication equipment. The facilities provide the possibility to run multi-step nanofabrication processes to build electronic, photonic and nanomechanical devices and structures with a feature size as small as 10 nm. It allows processing...

New 'omic' technologies have transformed biology by allowing scientists to read genomes (genomics) and to measure the amount of proteins (proteomics) or other chemicals (metabolomics) within living cells and organisms. Tiny amounts of DNA can be collected from the environment (environmental DNA, eDNA) to measure biodiversity and monitor the health of our soils, rivers and seas. This creates a tremendous opportunity to understand the diversity of different individuals and species within the...

The Natural Environment Research Council  (NERC) Environmental Data Service (EDS) provides a focal point for NERC's scientific data and information.   The EDS consists of a network of environmental data centres.  These centres hold data covering all aspects of environmental science, gathered from environmental scientists working in the UK and around the world. The EDS are responsible for maintaining environmental data and making them available to all users, not just NERC researchers but others...

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is the UK’s National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) and forms part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Environmental Data Service (EDS) - https://nerc.ukri.org/research/sites/environmental-data-service-eds/

We provide open access to over 100,000 datasets while managing and delivering in excess of 450 different oceanographic variables. BODC provides the user community with a centralised data ingestion-discovery-delivery service...

The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. Our staff help researchers in ensuring that the data they produce are curated appropriately for the long-term, guaranteeing their security, accessibility and re-usability for the user community.

The EIDC is certified as a trusted repository by CoreTrustSeal.

We accept environmental data in re-usable formats for curation, including long-term storage and public...

ACTRIS is a pan-European initiative to produce long-term, high-quality observations of aerosols, clouds and trace gases across a network of European sites. Societal and environmental challenges, such as air quality, health, sustainability and climate change, increasingly require a diverse range of measurements to underpin policy initiatives. ACTRIS will help to solve such challenges by providing a platform for researchers to combine their efforts more effectively, and by providing observational...

WHAT IT DOES The Centre for Cell Imaging (CCI) is a world-class resource for imaging projects using optical microscopy. Our facility is equipped with the latest developments in microscopy. We examine a range of biological samples including malarial parasites, bacteria, mammalian cells, plants, chick embryos and fruit fly. We also have expertise imaging non-biological samples, such as hydrogels, cage nanocrystals and antibacterial surfaces.We also provide image analysis and support with state of...

We are a genomics centre providing access to leading-edge DNA sequencing technology and expertise. We drive both our own internal research programme and collaborate with researchers to enable them to answer their research objectives.

Our objectives: We will continue to deliver exciting research programmes and world-leading science.

• We will continue to provide a competitive advantage to esearchers by providing cutting-edge genomics expertise and technology that allows them to gain increased...

The Compact Linac is an innovative and highly compact electron beam and X-ray source. It has been developed to investigate the potential for small, low-energy linear accelerators to be utilised in application areas such as security, non-destructive testing and wastewater treatment. The highly characterised electron beam can be utilised horizontally, or deflected through 45 degrees for use with liquid samples. The system is housed in a fully shielded test facility with client access to a flexible...

Simulation software is the living data of physics and chemistry theory, mathematical algorithms and the art of software engineering.  In order to keep the research potential of Britain we need to provide for the sustainability and succession of our knowledge-base.

DL_Software is the living knowledge-base of molecular simulation software with over 5000 users worldwide. With supported development by CoSeC's communities such as CCP5, HEC-MCC and UKCOMES, our software packages have developed into...