The Genomics Platform resides in a 100,000 square foot facility located at 320 Charles St., Cambridge, MA. The building has served multiple purposes throughout its long history, including as a Budweiser Beer distribution center, and a storage facility for concessions served across the river at Fenway Park.
Today, the building is outfitted with the infrastructure required to transform hundreds of thousands of samples from primary sample material to data capable of discovering and identifying genomic underpinnings of human disease.
We have continually invested in the infrastructure of the facility to allow it to adapt to the changing needs of novel technologies.
Photo of 320 Charles St. Facility, circa 1986
Photograph by Christopher Hail, courtesy of the Harvard University Archives.
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Facility Specifications |
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| Year built | 1958 |
| Original Use | Warehouse |
| Gross SF | 100,000 |
| Lab SF | 38,604 SF |
| Lab Bench | 2,063 LINEAR FT |
| Supply Air | 212,000 CFM |
| Exhaust | 227,700 CFM |
| Tons Cooling | 1,435 TONS |
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Power Emergency Generators |
980 KW |
