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FAQs - General order information
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[+] How can I submit an order?
[+] How can I know which service I should select?
[+] Should I submit a B-Fabric project to be able to access the FGCZ proteomics services?
[+] Where should I send my samples?
[+] What are the Service Area and the Service Type?
The FGCZ offers many services and supports many technologies.
The Service Area corresponds to the "technology". In this case, "Proteomics / Protein Analysis".
Each Service Type includes services of similar nature (e.g., "Amino Acid Analysis", or "Characterization of Purified Biomolecules", or "Proteome Identification and Quantification")
[+] Who is the budget officer?
The Budget Officer (usually a professor) is the person legally and financially responsible for the project / order
[+] I don't know my PSP-Element or Cost Center
If you are ETH or UZH member, you have to provide a specific PSP-Element or Cost Center. Your Budget Officer should be able to provide this to you.
[+] What is a "Grouping Var"?
"Grouping Var" stands for grouping variable, and it should be considered as the "variable" in your experiment. E.g., control, empty vector, treatment, ....
You can add custom "Grouping Var" if you so desire.
[+] My organism is not listed among the species in your list
When you edit the table with your list of samples, you can see that some column headers include a "+". This plus allows you to generate a new annotation (e.g., a new species). Please add a new annotation IF AND ONLY IF your annotation is not existing in the list
[+] How can I share the results with my colleagues/supervisor?
Once the order is running, you can add members to the orders, as long as they have a B-Fabric account. Requester, Contact and Budget Officer are automatically member of the orders and can access all the comments, results and data.
[+] I am expressing a mammalian protein in e.coli. Which species should I select?
Please select "e.coli" as a species, and add your expressed protein in the FASTA field.
Enter the FASTA sequence with protein name (or identifier, if know). E.g.: >sp|P02769|ALBU_BOVIN ....
[+] Do you have a list of services and the corresponding price list?
[+] Can I have an official offer for the requested services?
Sure, we can prepare official offers without any problem, just enquiry. You can then link them to your order when you create one.
[+] Do you offer discounts for large sets of samples?
Terms and conditions, User lab, Publication and Acknowledgment Policy
[+] Does FGCZ have Terms and Conditions?
[+] How can we acknowledge the work of the FGCZ?
[+] What are the guidelines for User Lab?
[+] Which instruments do you have?
[+] Can I access the raw data?
For most of the experiments, raw data are imported in B-Fabric and they can be found under "workunits" on the left panel
[+] How can I upload file to repositories (i.e., PRIDE)?