The New York Genome Center (NYGC), a two-year-old nonprofit medical research institution, will install its computing infrastructure at Sabey’s data centers in New York City and in Quincy, Washington, which will provide computing support for the center’s new headquarters in Manhattan.

The organization did not say how much space or power it will be using at Sabey’s facilities, saying only that the data centers will provide “major computing support” for its activities. The two data centers are connected to each other and to the wholesale provider’s other US data centers by Sabey’s own IGX network.

Dave Sabey, the data center provider’s CEO, said the company had been impressed by NYGC’s vision and passion. “Together, we can build an unparalleled resource for analyzing, sharing, and storing genomics data and findings,” he said.

The Genome Center connects and combines the expertise and resources of universiteis, medical centers, technology and pharmaceutical companies and philanthropists in a collaborative effort to change medical research and clinical care.

Its founding member institutions include Columbia University, Cornell University, Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York University among others. The organization has raised more than US$110m in funds to date.

It is currently building a new headquarters in a Manhattan high-rise, where it will do genome sequencing and bioinformatics work as well as establish research labs. The headquarters will also include computing infrastructure for data processing and storage.