MetaGenoPolis is a scientific excellence INRAE center in microbiome analysis. Our scientists were the first to explore in depth the microbial genes of the human intestinal tract – and today, they conduct standardized high-throughput DNA metagenomics analyses for applications in human and animal health.

MetaGenoPolis offers end-to-end microbiome analysis services, including DNA extraction, library preparation, shotgun sequencing, quantitative and functional metagenomics, big data storage and computing facilities, bioinformatics, statistical analysis, and data interpretation – all under innovant scientific platforms, accompanied by an ethical center: UCLy (Lyon Catholic University).

MetaGenoPolis drives innovation by partnering with companies from the health, pharmaceutical, nutrition, and animal health industries. We offer to your organizations a chance to work with some of the foremost scientific experts in the microbiome field, facilitating unique R&D projects that aim to create market advantages and growth.

We belong to a large public INRAE ecosystem to give you the largest expertise in Microbiome: omics, vivo models, clinical data, national cohorts.

We are a non-profit organization and this allows us to propose you the best price for the best quality (cumulative with research tax credits and other public grants).

We continuously create successful start-ups (enterome, maat pharma and Novobiome).