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Contact:

Jennifer Jewell
DNA Project Manager
101 Innovation Blvd,
Suite 302
PA
16803

Tel: 814-234-7748 or
800-790-2258
US & Canada
Email: jjewell@salimetrics.com

Salimetrics

Salimetrics specializes in saliva research and has expanded to offer genetic testing services, customer support and technical advice. Our saliva DNA specialists are able to customize protocols to provide you with successful genotyping projects and meaningful results.

  • DNA Extraction
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Genotyping
  • Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) Analysis
  • Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Analysis

Salimetrics provides innovative salivary assay tools, testing services and analyses to researchers studying genetic and hormone markers affecting health, behavior and development.

Contact:

Seng Tzer Jing
Deputy Director
31 Biopolis Way,
#01-01 Nanos
Singapore 138669

Tel: 65-64788552
Email: seng_tzer_jing
@sbb.a-star.edu.sg

Singapore Bio-Bank

Description of services:

SBB provides all types of sample processing, including DNA extraction from blood and saliva, sample storage and distribution.

Applications:

DNA extraction is performed using an automated platform, the Qiagen Autopure LS.

Lab locations or locations where services are offered:

Singapore Bio-Bank
31 Biopolis Way, #01-01 Nanos
Singapore 138669

Contact:

Source BioScience
1 Orchard Place
Nottingham Business Park
Nottingham
NG8 6PX

Tel: 0800 652 6774
Email: sales@
sourcebioscience.com

Source BioScience AUTOGEN™ & Geneservice™

Source BioScience AUTOGEN™ & Geneservice™ is a contract research service provider and biological resource centre used by research companies and academic institutions worldwide. We are fully CPA, GLP/GCP accredited & most recently we have been awarded CSPro certification. With an archive of more than 16 million DNA samples, over 100,000 specialist and innovative products and a comprehensive portfolio of genomic services supported by the latest platforms and technologies, we are the only company that offers such a unique and wide ranging product and service collection.

Lab location and locations served:

Source BioScience offers genomic services and products worldwide. Our laboratories are based in Cambridge, Dublin, London, Nottingham and Oxford 

Contact:

Pearl Campbell
Director
501 Smyth Road, Sprott Centre for StemCell Research, Room 5151a Critical Care Wing
Ottawa, Ontario
K1H 8L6

Tel: (613) 737-8899 x73110
Email: pcampbell@ohri.ca

StemCore Laboratories

Description of services:

StemCore Laboratories is a high-throughput genomics facility within the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI). StemCore Laboratories is developing a world-class infrastructure for genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics, and is capable of facilitating large-scale scientific research and biotechnology projects. Stemcore Laboratories seeks out projects that are challenging, cutting-edge, extend the boundaries of biological knowledge, and will positively impact the state of human health.

Applications:

Illumina Next Generation SequencingDNA SequencingAffymetrix GeneChip TechnologyCell SortingLab-on-a-Chip Bioanalysis.

Lab location and locations served:

StemCore Laboratories Address: 501 Smyth Road, Sprott Centre for StemCell Research, Room 5132 Critical Care Wing Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6

Contact:

Henrik Sjöström
Tel: +46 31 761 57 04
email: Henrik.sjostrom@tataa.com

TATAA biocenter

Description of services:

TATAA Biocenter is a commercial research provider that offers commissioned research and training within molecular diagnostics and gene expression analysis using real-time PCR and other molecular techniques to quantify nucleic acids. Our competence is based on knowledge and experience accumulated through years of research at leading European Universities. Our offer comprises the entire field of real-time PCR services including commissioned research, hands-on training, and custom design of real-time PCR assays.

Lab locations or locations where services are offered:

TATAA Biocenter, Gothenburg, Sweden

Contact:

Jo-Anne Herbrick
Facility Manager, TCAG
MaRS Centre TMDT
Room 14-706
101 College St.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5G 1L7
Tel.: (416) 813-8140
jherbrick@sickkids.ca

The Centre for Applied Genomics

Description of services:

Genomics project consultation and design, Genomic DNA preparation (including OrageneDNA), DNA Sequencing, including capillary Sanger, Solexa/Illumina, Roche/454 and ABI SOLiD next-generation sequencing, Oligonucleotide Synthesis, Microarray Analysis (Affymetrix, Agilent, Illumina DNA arrays, all using OrageneDNA; also expression arrays), Genotyping (MegAllele, Taqman, SNaPshot, microsatellite), Cytogenomics (karyotyping, FISH mapping, SKY, transgene mapping, breakpoint analysis), Genomic and cDNA library clone distribution and probe labeling, Statistical Consultation and Analysis, Biobanking and Cell Culture, Bioinformatics.

Lab Location and Locations served:

TCAG provides services to researchers in Ontario, the rest of Canada and worldwide.

Contact:

email: Prof Bill Ollier
email: Dr Kate Dixon
email: Dr Jay Brown

UK DNA Banking Network (UDBN)

Description of services:

Sample Management: management of collections of large numbers of biological samples for the use in scientific investigation. We can manage all aspects of sample collection from initial processing (e.g. DNA extraction, plasma/serum separation), long term storage (-80C, -20C) and distribution of resultant samples to third party clients if required. We have expertise in the collection and management of associated clinical data via our website and collaboration management tool. All our laboratory procedures are fully audit trailed using our LIMS system and we are ISO9001:2000 accredited.

Lab Location and Locations served:

UDBN
Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research
Stopford Building
University of Manchester
Oxford road
Manchester
M13 9PT

Contact:

Matthew Kaplan
Staff Scientist
Keating BioResearch Building
Room 111J
Tucson, Arizona 85719
Tel: 520-621-9791

mkaplan
@email.arizona.edu

uagc.arl.arizona.edu

University of Arizona Genetics Core

Description of services:

Genomic DNA isolation, DNA quantification, DNA normalization, DNA Banking, Custom PCR Services, Genotyping, DNA sequencing (Sanger), Microsatellite and DNA fragment analysis, Next Generation Sequencing (454, Torrent, HiSeq), custom sample processing pipeline construction

Lab location and locations served:

University of Arizona Genetics Core
Keating BioResearch Building
Tucson, Arizona 85719

 

Contact:

Shigeshi "Shag" Yamamoto
UCSF DNA Bank
1550 Fourth Street, Rock Hall 515 San Francisco, CA
94158-2324
Tel: 415-514-9933
Fax: 414-514-4365
For contracts please contact
Los Edblad
Institute for Human Genetics
edbladl@humgen.ucsf.edu
415-476-5272

University of California, San Francisco

DNA Extraction
May contact other core facilities for downstream applications

Lab location and locations served:

UCSF Mission Bay Campus, Rock Hall 515

Contact:

Don Baldwin, Ph.D. (Director)
215-898-3675 or
dbaldwin
@mail.med.upenn.edu

Kathakali Addya, Ph.D.
Technical Director)
215-662-7570 or
addya
@mail.med.upenn.edu

University of Pennsylvania Molecular Diagnosis and Genotyping Facility

Description of services:

The Facility provides sample preparation, assay design, lab work, and initial data analysis for a variety of SNP genotyping platforms including custom TaqMan, Beckman SNPstream, and Illumina GoldenGate, as well as whole-genome genotyping by Illumina Infinium and Affymetrix GeneChip systems. Diagnostic testing with DNA or RNA-based assays are developed and performed for clinical research applications.

Locations Serviced or Lab locations:

Primarily service to the greater Philadelphia region; open to clients worldwide.

Contact:

Genomics Manager:
Deborah Hollingshead
hollings@pitt.edu
Tel: 412-648-9440
Assistant Director:
Janette Lamb
jal18@pitt.edu
Tel: 412-648-9440

University of Pittsburgh

Description of services:

The Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratories have extensive RNA/DNA extraction experience for dozens of tissue types including saliva, whole or frozen blood, tissue, cultured cells, buccal cells, and cell lines. GPCL also provides services in DNA sequencing, SNP genotyping and RNA analysis.

Please visit our web site for more information.
www.genetics.pitt.edu

Lab location and locations served:

University of Pittsburgh
Genomics & Proteomics Core Laboratories
3343 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA, 15260

Contact:

Hugo Alberto Barrera Saldaña
General

Camino de las
Alondras #240
Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 64630
habarrera@gmail.com
Tel: 52 (81) 81 43 89 43

Vitagenesis, S.A. de C.V.

Description of services:

Genomic Analysis (Paternity Test, Papillomavirus Genotypification, detection of KRAS, JAK-2 and Factor V mutation).

Lab location and locations served:

Vitagenesis, S.A. de C.V.
Boulevard Puerta del Sol #1005
Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 64630

Contact:

Lee Murphy
Laboratory Manager
Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
Western General Hospital
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH4 2XU
Tel: 0131 537 3370
Fax: 0131 537 3361
Lee.Murphy@ed.ac.uk

Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility

Link to website:
www.wtcrf.ed.ac.uk/genetics/default genetics.htm

Description of services:

DNA extraction from blood and Oragene kits. PBL, plasma and serum isolation. Sample storage and biobanking. Taqman genotyping, Illumina genotyping and gene expression.

Lab locations or locations where services are offered:

Services provided to researchers across Scotland, the rest of the UK and Europe.
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DNA Genotek is committed to providing a robust partner program to further improve our ability to help our clients with their processing, long term storage and distribution of human genetic samples using the Oragene family of products."

Steve Turner,
Facility Manager,
Genetic Repositories Australia

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