General Information
The Genomics Facility at University of Chicago provides microarray, DNA sequencing and genotyping platforms. The facility provides services for software solutions, programming solutions, database solutions and interdisciplinary collaborations for biomedical researchers.
DNA Sequencing Instruments Used
- Applied Biosystems 3730xl
- Sequenom System
- Illumina HiSeq2000
- Illumina MiSeq
- LifeTech SOLiD 5500xl
DNA Sequencing Prices
Internal
- $4.25 / sample
External
- $7.00 / sample
Illumina Sequencing Runs (per lane)
- 50 bp Single-end | $750 (any number of Lanes)
- 100 bp Single-end | $1,100 (8 lanes only)
- 50 bp Paired-end | $1,250 (8 lanes only)
- 100 bp Paired-end | $1,800 (any number of lanes)
DNA Template Requirements
Plasmids
- 0.3 to 0.6 µg/µl
PCR products
- Size (kb) / 10 = concentration (µg/µl)
- For 500 bp fragment (0.5kb/10 = 0.05 µg/µl or 50 ng/µl)
Primers
- 4 µM | 4 pmol/µl
Other information
Standard primers are available for free of cost.
Sequencing turn-around time
24 hours
International orders
No information
GLP DNA sequencing
Not mentioned
Other DNA sequencing related services offered
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Library preparation
- SNP Genotyping
- Micro Array Analysis
- Fragment Analysis
Contact Information
Genomics Facility
University of Chicago
Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery (KCBD)
900 E. 57th Street
Room # 1230C
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
Phone: +1 773 702 1088
Email: DNACore@DNAServer.bsd.uchicago.edu
Website: http://genomics.bsd.uchicago.edu/
Comments
The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments. Users are guaranteed for satisfactory sequence. The facility will do re-sequencing otherwise the failed reactions will not be charged. The reaction limit for failed reaction is 24 samples.
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