Funding to establish and expand the Center has been provided by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. This facility combines efforts of current and future members of the Department of Biology at The University of Iowa. The Roy J. Carver Center of Comparative Genomics has several internal core facilities to expedite the mission of the Center and its researchers. These include an automated capillary DNA sequencer for the analysis of sequence variation, a Quantitative Real Time PCR Thermocycler for the quantification of DNA and single nucletide polymorphisms, a robotic liquid-handling station as well as high performance computer for data analysis and mining of existing data.

Individual research scientists are supported through competitive grants such as from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and the The Carver Trust.