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[+] How can I submit an order?
Please check our dedicated intranet page,
here
[+] How can I know which service I should select?
[+] Should I submit a B-Fabric project to be able to access the Genomics services?
Depending on the type of the requested service, you may be requested to submit a small project proposal in our FGCZ Data Management system
B-Fabric. Most of the analyses that focus on the identification and characterization of proteins, do not require the submission of a project. NGS experiments normally require the submission of a project.
Please check our dedicated intranet page,
here
[+] Where should I send my samples?
Please send your samples to:
Sequencing Platform
Functional Genomics Center Zurich
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
If you want, you can directly bring them to FGCZ. You can find us following these
directions
[+] 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, "Genomics".
[+] 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.
[+] 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.
[+] Do you have a list of services and the corresponding price list?
The list of our services is described in details on our intranet pages,
here. Feel free to contact us at
sequencing at fgcz.ethz.ch in case you don't find what you are looking for.
The internal prices (UZH and ETH) for the most common services are shown
here. Please enquire for prices for external academics and companies.
[+] Can I have an official offer for the requested services?
Sure, we can prepare official offers without any problem, just inquire. 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?
Yes, FGCZ has Terms and Conditions (see
here). You are asked to accept them as soon as you submit an order or a project.
[+] How can we acknowledge the work of the FGCZ?
[+] What are the guidelines for User Lab?
You can find all the guidelines
here. For information on the course to access the User Lab, please check the dedicated
Genomics User Lab page
[+] Which instruments do you have?
For an overview of our instrument portfolio, please check the
Genomics Equipment.
For a more detailed description and information on the applications, please visit our
intranet page
[+] 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?
If you are ready to upload your results to a public repository such as GEO, you can follow these detailed
instructions (login required with B-Fabric account)