General information
GATC Biotech, is located in Constance, Germany and in Cambridge, UK. GATC is a privately owned company that was established in 1990. GATC Biotechy is ISO 9001:2000 certified.
Sequencing instruments used
Applied Biosystems 3730xl and 3700 sequencers
Prices
Low volume
Electrophoresis only | €9.50
Single Run | €13.00
Long Run (~1000 Q20 bases) | €27.00
BAC, PAC or Cosmid | €20.00
Bacterial genomic DNA | €46.00
High volume
Tray (minimum 48 samples) | €12.00 per sample
Sample requirements
Plasmids
30 - 100 ng/µl | 30 µl minimum
BAC and PAC clones
>100 ng/µl | 30 µl minimum
Cosmids
>100 ng/µl | 30 µl minimum
PCR products
10 -50 ng/µl | 30 µl minimum
Genomic DNA (<5 Mb)
>300 ng/µl | 30 µl minimum
Lambda DNA
>150 ng/µl | 30 µl minimum
Primers
10 pmol/µl
Common universal primers are provided free
Sample turn around time
PCR products and plasmids | 1 day
Electrophoresis only | 1 day
BAC and cosmids | 2 days
Bacterial and viral genomic DNA | 2 to 3 days
International orders
Yes
GLP DNA sequencing
Yes
Other DNA sequencing related services offered
- High G+C sequencing
- High throughput DNA isolation
- Microsatellite screening
- Genome sequencing
- cDNA gene libraries
- BAC libraries
- Cosmid libraries
- PCR product libraries
- LAM-PCR
- AFLP analysis
- GeneScan
Contact Information
GATC Biotech AG
Jakob-Stadler-Platz 7
D-78467 Konstanz
Germany
phone. +49 (0)7531 81 60 0
fax. +49 (0)7531 81 60 81
email. service@gatc-biotech.com
GATC Biotech Ltd.
St. John's Innovation Centre
Cowley Road
Cambridge CB4 0WS
United Kingdom
phone. +44 (0) 1223 421011
fax. +44 (0) 1223 421014
email. service@gatc-biotech.com
Comments
From personal experience GATC produce very high quality DNA sequence traces, however, they are fairly expensive. They do offer a very wide range of DNA sequencing and other molecular biology related services.
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