The National Genomics and Genotyping Facility (NGGF) was inaugurated by Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, on 4th May 2019 at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi. This Facility is operating as Public-Private Partnership and it is serving as a “Singe-window service system,” for advanced high throughput genomics and genotyping based solutions and consultancy backed by a State-of-art Bioinformatics facility. This facility provides services to the custom research stakeholders of any domain of biotechnology (Agricultural, Animal, Viral, Microbial etc.) and stakeholders encompass government, academic labs and industries.
The objectives and purposes of NGGF are given below.

Objectives:

• To provide access to new and improved genomic tools to breeder in public private sector for fast tracking varietal development.
• To provide consultancy to Plant breeders and Plant Bio-technologists by providing advice on appropriate technologies to be chosen, study design, data analysis and bioinformatics that enables and improves the quality of the research and product development.
• To provide hand on training to stakeholder(s) in the field of marker deployment.
• Protection of intellectual assets generated.
• To provide new technologies to crop improvement community in the public and private funded research system.
• Act as nodal center for DNA finger printing of lines and varieties for certification purpose in coordination with Plant Variety Protection Authority.