The Aberystwyth Genetic Resources Unit comprises a collection of approximately 33,000 accessions of forage grasses, forage legumes, oats, grain legumes, energy grasses and amienity grasses. In addition it comprises a physical building (a new building is to be completed in June 2019 on the Aberystwyth Innovation & Enterprise Campus) for seed storage and seed processing; and a quarentine facility of glasshouses for containing recently collected accessions brought into the UK. The infrastructure...

ADR Wales brings together world-renowned data science experts, leading academics and specialist teams within Welsh Government to produce evidence that shapes future policy decisions in Wales. ADR Wales is the focal point for data-related research in Wales and a major player in UK-wide efforts to transform research and policy environments. ADR Wales is a core element of the ESRC’s, via UKRI, ADR UK investment.

 ADR Wales unites specialists in their field from Swansea University Medical School...

The MQADP is a research platform and infrastructure to enable research to improve children and young peoples’ mental health, by pooling data from multiple sources: linking routinely collected data (health, deprivation, social care) with clinical interviews, psychological, biological and genetic data. This resource will continue to expand in terms of size, nations covered, and breadth and depth of data, with continued linkage, recruitment and additional measures planned and be available for...

What it does: BioPilotsUK is a distributed infrastructure providing access to key hardware, skills and knowhow, for both industrial and academic R&D to aid innovation and de-risk the development of bio-based products and processes. Research Goals etc: • Provide simple-to-access responsive support to academia and businesses to accelerate innovative growth in the UK bioeconomy. • To assist UK industry realise potential investments in biobased research and innovation and bring new products to...

The Cardiff University Biobank facility houses a large storage space for up to 900,000 biological samples including blood, urine, tissue and saliva. The facility can provide fresh, frozen and processed (serum, plasma, slides) samples which are collected and stored to the highest standards. Patients and healthy volunteers kindly donate these biological samples to enable researchers to gain a deeper understanding of diseases. The samples are crucial in allowing researchers to find better ways to...

The Centre for Automotive & Power System Engineering (CAPSE) based within the Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Science is a nationally recognised independent research, development, test and certification house with a reputation for cutting edge research and knowledge transfer activities within the advanced automotive and power systems engineering sectors. CAPSE (proudly part sponsored by Welsh Governments flagship A4B (Academia for business) programme under the European Regional...

Mass Spectrometry is an essential, fundamental, analytical tool for the characterisation of molecules, applicable in most areas of chemical synthesis, isolation and application. National Mass Spectrometry Facility (NMSF) at Swansea University, as the former EPSRC UK National Research Facility (NRF) for Mass Spectrometry, provides access to mass spectrometry and related hyphenated techniques and expertise for the UK scientific community; these are especially important when local facilities do not...

The GTRC is one of a handful of academic research facilities in the world to have the operational scale which enables novel research studies to be conducted into the functionality of new Gas Turbine combustion systems, components and fuels under elevated conditions of temperature and pressure, as would be experienced within a gas turbine engine during operation Measurements can be made with the following maximum throughputs: • Combustion Air flow Rate: < 5 kg/s • Combustion Pressure: < 16 bar...

MBLL was established in 2011in collaboration with AIRBUS to research lightning direct effects on materials, in particular aerospace materials and components. It now has research activities on lightning effects on: CFRP materials, aircraft fuel tanks joints and outgassing phenomenon, low voltage circuit protection, light polarization in optical fibres installed on overhead ground wires (OPGW) and discharge phenomena in hybrid aircraft. It is the only university-based lightning direct effects...

Overview
CLIMB provides a core national computational infrastructure to produce, analyze and share microbiological software and datasets. CLIMB is accessed via a self-service portal, providing computational resources on-demand. The system provides users with customisable virtual laboratories include a suite of >100 preconfigured microbial analysis tools, and access to a library of many hundreds more. We support over 1,000 registered users from 89 organisations across the UK, representing most...