The staff of the Centre provide a high level of expertise to internal and external users. The Institute contains a wide range of major equipment for molecular and cellular research. This includes X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, laser and optical spectroscopy, confocal microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and extensive tissue culture facilities. There is also a central media service while the Large Scale Laboratory offers the facilities to grow large volumes of bacteria, yeast, insect and most animal cell cultures. Oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis and sequencing are provided through an Institute-wide service.
All NIMR staff can access a coherent collection of printed and electronic information resources.
About 270 current periodicals are available, most of them in both printed and electronic versions. A range of protocol manuals, methods collections and textbooks are held in the Library. The Institute runs a distributed computing system, based around a local area network of over 400 machines, with high speed links to the outside. There is on-line access to the major international protein and nucleic acid databases, and guidance is provided for their use. In addition there is a central PC support team providing service and advice to individual users.