Services, Fees, & Payment
Services
Sanger Sequencing
- Services consists of cycle sequencing (BDv3.1) reactions, sephadex-column clean-up, and capillary electrophoresis run
- Billed per reaction: 1 reaction consists of 1 single sample and 1 single sequencing primer
- Billing rate depends on the total number of reactions in the sequencing order
Tube Transfer – Reaction surcharge when samples or premixes are submitted in 1.5mL tubes or do not follow the submission format requested in our order submission instructions
Non-core-supplied Primer Addition – Reaction surcharge when core staff add user-supplied primers to a sample prior to sequencings
Ready-to-Run Sequencing – User-prepared Sanger sequencing samples submitted in 96-well plate format, ready to load on capillary electrophoresis instrument
Rates - effective July 1, 2025
Service |
Unit |
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External Affiliated |
External Academic Non-Profit |
External Start-Up Company |
External Commercial |
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Sequencing services |
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| Sanger sequencing, (1 – 15 total reactions) | reaction | $4.95 | $4.95 | $8.47 | $11.27 | $14.99 |
| Sanger Sequencing, (16 – 93 total reactions) | reaction | $2.05 | $2.05 | $5.72 | $7.61 | $10.12 |
| Sanger Sequencing, (94+ total reactions) | reaction | $2.00 | $2.00 | $4.84 | $6.44 | $8.56 |
| Tube Transfer | reaction | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.41 | $0.55 | $0.73 |
| Non-core-supplied Primer Addition | reaction | $0.25 | $0.25 | $0.41 | $0.55 | $0.73 |
| dGTP Supplement** | reaction | $4.95 | $4.95 | $8.12 | $10.80 | $14.36 |
| Ready-to-Run Sequencing | plate | $48.00 | $48.00 | $158.27 | $210.50 | $279.96 |
| PCR Cleanup** | reaction | $1.25 | $1.25 | $2.05 | $2.73 | $3.63 |
Fragment Analysis services* |
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Plasmid services** |
*Currently offered on demand — inquire by email
**Not currently offered
Billing and payment
Billing for our core and all OSRF cores is administrated by the OSRF Finance Team. We report services rendered to OSRF monthly. PIs and designated account administrators receive invoices from OSRF around the 15th of the month following order fulfillment. Invoices can be paid via the invoice payment template (UChicago users only), credit card or wire. The invoice payment template can be found here. For questions about payment not answered here, please reach out to the OSRF Finance Team at osrffinance@bsd.uchicago.edu.