I’m looking for a company that will accept a tissue sample (e.g. a spider leg) and provide the DNA barcode for the organism. Many years ago I was using Quintara Biosciences , but they stopped accepting tissue samples. Then I tried biome-id in Germany. They were great, but shipping tissue samples in a…

Coincidental timing on this post-- I emailed LifeScanner about their kits earlier today. I just got an email back from them, apparently all their resources have been directed towards COVID testing and the kits will not be available again “until we see a reprieve from the pandemic.”.

[image] masonmaron: LifeScanner I’ve been curious about this as well.

maybe telling an idiocy, but what about Qiagen ? Think they have a subsidiary in US…

Maybe look into your local universities? Many have in house Sanger or Next Generation sequencing facilities that will handle outside samples and some have biospecimen preparation services. I don’t see DNA barcoding specifically listed as a service at my local university, but I’m sure they have the c…

I’ve tried local universities, but haven’t found any that offer biospecimen preparation services for people unaffiliated with the university. I once got a grad student to do it for me, but they didn’t really know what they were doing and the results were too poor quality to use. Northeastern: Alrea…

UC Berkeley does biospecimen preparation - https://qb3.berkeley.edu/facility/genomics/services/biospecimen-processing/ Guelph - was thinking Canada would be easier than the EU Looked through all my spam emails - Novogene also does sequencing, maybe also sample prep? Not sure if they will do just …

I just chanced across a paper from an Alaskan wildllfe refuge that used RTL for DNA barcoding - if you dig into their FAQ’s, it appears they do accept “unextracted” samples… https://rtlgenomics.com/submissionfaq

Anyone know a DNA barcoding service in the U.S.?

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zygy March 19, 2021, 8:47pm 7

Qiagen, like IDT, sells DNA sequencing technology and products, but I don’t think they offer it as a service.

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Anyone know a DNA barcoding service in the U.S.?

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