The Western Australia State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre (SABC), located at Murdoch University, is a multi-user research facility which operates as a ‘Research Hotel’ to deliver major platform technologies in one cost-effective centre to all biotechnology researchers. The research focus is molecular activities that involve or promote primary production of commercial livestock, crop plants or microbes, or their subsequent processing for added value.

The SABC also supports research in biomedical sciences and environmental biotechnology. Experienced core staff assist with research in structural, functional and comparative genomics including utilisation of the microarray platform. The Centre offers full facilities for:

• cell and molecular biology;
• robotics;
• high throughput agricultural genetic analyses and diagnostics;
• structural, comparative and functional genomics;
• microarray technologies;
• proteomics;
• mass spectroscopy; and
• bioinformatics support.