G42 Healthcare opens Omics centre in Abu Dhabi ABU DHABI, January 25, 2021 G42 Healthcare, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-based technology company Group 42 (G42), has opened its Omics Centre of Excellence in the UAE capital, set to become home to a series of Omics projects such as the Emirati Genome Program. The inauguration ceremony of the latest addition to G42 Healthcare’s initiatives was attended by Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Hamed, Chairman of Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), and Dr Jamal Mohammed Al Kaabi, Undersecretary of Department of Health – Abu Dhabi. Located in Masdar, Abu Dhabi, G42 Healthcare’s Omics Centre of Excellence is the region’s largest and most advanced Omics facility in terms of technology coverage, automation, computational capacity, and throughput. The centre has the highest level of automation in sample and library prep, as well as the region’s largest computational resources in terms of processing power and storage.