Services Core/facility: Keck DNA Sequencing Facility

Human cell line authentication

dnaseq@yale.edu

About the service

Using a cell line authentication service can help to establish the identity of a cell line or confirm that it remains uncontaminated. With the use of the CLA Identifiler Direct Kit, we will perform STR genotyping by fragment analysis. This STR profile will be the key to authenticating the cell line.

Available to Yale researchers & external researchers

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Human cell line authentication

PLEASE NOTE!! We close for the year at 3PM on Monday, 12/23/2024. Please have your samples in the pickup buckets by 9:30 AM on Monday, December 23, 2024 to ensure processing before the break. You may also bring them in person before 10AM.

Sample Submission

Rates

Rates as of 7/1/2024

 
ServiceInternal customer rateExternal for -profit customer rateExternal non-profit customer rate
Human cell line authentication (CLA), per sample$75.00$100.00$100.00

Submission requirements

  1. Pick up Nucleic spotting cards at Room 2128, 300 George Street, New Haven, CT.
  2. Prepare 40 uL cell suspension @ 5 x 10 5 cells/mL in PBS.
  3. Spot 40 uL cell suspension directly to Nucleic Card and dry overnight in hood. Package back in labeled paper folder and store in plastic bag.
  4. Send your expected allelic table (in Excel form) to DNAseq@yale.edu.
  5. Place your order in the online submission system and submit your samples to Keck DNA Sequencing. You can hand deliver or use one of our drop-off buckets.

     

Data return

You will receive an Excel document of your allelic table for ATCC cell confirmation, along with the .MSA project file so you can visualize your own data.

Data will be returned via Thermofisher Connect. (Users receive 1TB free storage.) Please make an account to be able to analyze the cell authentication data. The account is managed and set up by the individual user; Keck DNA Sequencing Core can only share data to user account.

Data return

Your project will be shared via Thermo Fisher Connect so you can visualize your own data.

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