Department of Biological Sciences

Waikato DNA Sequencing Facility

Request Form

Before submitting your templates, please download our Request Form (in Adobe Acrobat format, approx 66KB) and include a printed copy of this form when sending your material.

Results

We will notify you via email when your sequencing request is complete. Results can be made available in a number of ways; please indicate your preference by ticking the appropriate box(es) on the Request form.

• E-mail: The sequence text file is sent via email in FASTA format.
• Electropherogram printout: The electropherograms are sent as a hard copy via the mail.
• FTP: This method allows you have access to both the text and sequence files from our FTP server.  Researchers are able to edit their trace data and perform downstream analysis.

FTP Service

Please contact us if you wish to be able to access your results via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) via our secure server. We will provide instructions to download your results to your computer using FTP software or via a Browser.

Archives

Template Archives: All supplied templates and primers are stored frozen (-20°C) for a minimum period of three months and can be called upon for any new reactions or any remainder returned upon request.

Results Archives: All resulting data is archived where possible, should you experience a data loss, or find that the electronic versions of any present or past result would now be beneficial, we can make this available to you from our archives.