General information
Macrogen in a Korean biotechnology company with a large DNA sequencing service facility. Macrogen have recently established an US subsidiary in Rockville, Maryland to service the USA market.
Sequencing instruments used
6 Applied Biosystems 3730xl and 9 ABI 3700. The have also recently purchased at least one 454 / Roche Genome Sequence 20 Instrument.
Prices
Low volume
Contact for pricing. Macrogen's advertising quotes $5.00 a sample.
High volume
Contact for pricing. Personal experience is that Macrogen are very price competitive in the high volume sequencing market.
Sample requirements
Plasmids
100 ng/µl | 15 µl minimum
PCR products
50 ng/µl | 15 µl minimum
Primers
5 pmol/µl | 10 µl minimum
Common universal primers are provided free
Sample turn around time
Normal service | 48 hours
Express service | 24 hours
International orders
Yes
GLP DNA sequencing
Unknown
Other DNA sequencing related services offered
- Transposon insertion sequencing
- Whole genome sequencing
- Gene library construction
- BAC end sequencing
- Primer walking sequencing
- DNA extraction and purification
- 16S rRNA sequencing
- cDNA library sequencing
Contact Information
Macrogen Korea
phone. +82 2 2113 7042
fax. +82 02-2113-7120
email. info@macrogen.com
Macrogen USA
9700 Seneca Highway
Rockville, MD, 20850
USA
phone. 301 251 1007
fax. +44 (0) 1223 421014
email. customer@macrogenusa.com
Comments
Very impressive site. There are no prices on Macrogen's web site, but their advertising suggests US$5 a sample. I can't find a street address for Macrogen in Korea, but as Korean's don't have western style addresses this is not surprising. Macrogen have recently added 454 Genome Sequencer instrument capacity to their services which offers excellent turn around times for bacterial scale or smaller genome projects.
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