The Paris Saclay Transcriptomics Platform (POPS), located in Gif sur Yvette (91), was created in 2003 with the primary mission of offering a range of technical and bioinformatics services for the analysis of plant transcriptomes. It is a ‘customised integrated service’.
POPS enables the public and private scientific community to answer biological questions through high-throughput RNA sequencing, commonly known as RNA-Seq. We carry out research projects in collaboration with national and international research teams. We have chosen to specialise exclusively in plants in order to develop strong expertise and provide our partners with the best possible advice on their projects. To date, we have worked on more than 93 different species.
Our field of application requires us to remain at the cutting edge of technology in the field of sequencing and data analysis in order to offer technical protocols and bioinformatic analyses that are both biologically and financially relevant and interesting. Our second mission is ‘development’.
Finally, it is important to pass on the knowledge acquired through the community. The platform provides training, participates in teaching, co-organises ‘plant omics days’ and welcomes interns. This is an essential aspect called ‘Training & Scientific Animation’.

Services

With its wealth of expertise in plants, POPS offers various protocols and analyses to answer users’ biological questions. The different stages involved in carrying out a project are as follows:

(*These stages can be handled by our collaborators.)