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Oklahoma State Microarray Core and Bioinformatics Core Cost recovery System

Non-Profit Fee Information:

The fees listed are finalized, but must be considered estimates. Actual fees may vary. We are not allowed to make a profit, and try to provide service at or below your cost.  Please contact us if you have questions. 

Normal Workorder Procedure:
1. Core Personnel meet with you to determine needs and agree on a workorder with pricing
2. A charge number must be obtained with workorder
3. Work is performed
4. Invoices are sent from our Office monthly

  • ACADEMIC - Includes Oklahoma State University, all private academic institutions, and all public academic institutions outside of Oklahoma using government funding.
  • PRIVATE - All private companies, and all other organizations.

Bioinformatics Fees: 

Informatics Services are generally charged by the hour. Please contact Core
personnel if you have questions

Consulting Price
Academic
Price
Private
Initial microarray data formatting, or reformatting (per hour) $15.27 $40.00
Use of Core Software  (e.g GenePix) (per hour)  $15.27  $50.00 
Scanning 2-color Slides with Microarray Scanner (per hour) $15.27 $40.00
Submission to GPAP $15.27 $30.00
Organizing differential gene expression data, (per hour) $15.27 $50.00
Gene ontology consultation, (per hour) $15.27 $40.00
Setting Up Server Account (One time Fee) $15.27 $20.00
Performing gene ontology, (per hour) $15.27 $65.00
Data Storage (per gigabyte-month) (See note below!) $1.00 $3.00
Installing Software on Server, (per hour) $15.27 $60.00
Installing Software on Personal Computers, (per hour) $15.27 $45.00*
Statistical analysis, (per hour) $15.27 $75.00
Database Setups, (per hour) $15.27 $30.00
Remote Database entry by user** (per hour) $15.27 $40.00

Data can be stored on OMCF drives at a reasonable cost. However, all data over 4-months old will be automatically removed by scheduling software. Therefore it is important that all users eventually store their own data. Quotas will be enforced to allocate drivespace.

* Travel time to and from office locations will be included
** User must be proficient at database entry for these rates to apply.