This form MUST be filled out when you submit your samples to us. Thank you!
Help with filling out the sample submission form:
- Fill out all of the personal information. Please understand that samples without the user's email address and phone number and billing information can not be processed.
- Billing Information: Please be sure to include billing information, most importantly a billing contact. Samples without complete billing information will not be run.
- Stain field: Please indicate Coomassie staining, silver staining, or SYPRO Ruby staining.
- Organism: Please give as much information as known about the sample submitted.
- Cysteine Alkylation: Please indicate if the sample has been alkylated. If you are unsure, answer no.
- % Gel Used and Gel Type: Please indicate the precentage of the gel and the type of polymer (i.e. polyacrylamide). If the gel was not homemade, also indicte the vendor.
- Detergent and Salts: Please give your best estimate for the amount of detergents and salts used in the sample.
- Please indicate whether your sample contains isotopes, body fluids, or pathogens whether they are active or not!. While none of these criteria excludes your samples from analysis, we need to know about this to protect ourselves and to comply with EH&S regulations. Note that your sample will NOT be processed unless these boxes are checked! We will routinely check samples for isotopes and, in select cases, inquire about additional information from users and/or PIs. If you answer any of these three questions with "Yes", we will need additional, written information on the exact nature of your sample on a separate sheet. If this information is not provided, your sample can NOT be processed!
- Sample Name field: Fill in whatever name you gave your sample. If the sample is from a 2-D gel run at HCPF, please keep the name consistent with the name of the gel.
- Molecular Weight: If you are looking for a specific protein from your sample, please indicate the molecular weight here. If you are unsure of the proteins in the sample, please leave blank.
- Quantity Estimate: Please estimate the amount of protein in the band or spot you submitted based on the stain used.