The following is a list of outside vendors that our faculty have used and recommended.
Please let us know about additional positive (or negative) experiences you have had with outsourcing services.
Company/Core Facility: Addgene
Research Area: Plasmids and ready-to-use viral preparations
Website: https://www.addgene.org/
Notes: The Meares lab will be using this company.
Company/Core Facility: Genewiz
Research Area: Gene & oligo synthesis, cloning, plasmid DNA prep
Website: https://www.genewiz.com/en/Public/Services
Notes: The Meares lab will be using this company.
Company/Core Facility: Genome Analysis Shared Resource, Mayo Clinic Research Core Facilities
Research Area: Genomics
Website: https://www.mayo.edu/research/core-facilities/about
Notes: The Aulakh lab had a good experience working with this core.
Company/Core Facility: GenScript
Research Area: Gene synthesis and cloning
Website: www.genscript.com
Notes: The Leonardi lab has successfully used these services multiple times.
Company/Core Facility: IHC World
Research Area: Fluorescent immunohistochemistry and digital imaging
Website: http://www.ihcworld.com/
Notes: The Eubank lab recommends this company.
Company/Core Facility: Molecular Biology Core Facilities, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Research Area: Genomics & proteomics
Website: http://mbcf.dfci.harvard.edu/
Notes: The Aulakh lab had a good experience working with this core.
Company/Core Facility: Transgenic Core Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University SOM
Research Area: Transgenics, CRISPR services
Website: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/core/home.htm
Notes: The Leonardi lab had a positive experience.
The following list contains websites where you can search for core facilities at other institutions that offer services to outside customers.
Resource Listing: CORE Marketplace
Website: https://coremarketplace.org/
Notes: The Vermont Genetics Network & ABRF established the Core Marketplace database to search research services and technologies that are regionally accessible.
Resource Listing: Mid-Atlantic Shared Services Consortium
Website: https://georgetown.box.com/s/xyzlilhj8dzowmwko4s85d2k8yhnmzqa
Notes: Resources in a regional consortium of NCI-designated cancer centers at University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia and Georgetown.
Resource Listing: IDeA-Supported Cores & Facilities
Website: https://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/DRCB/IDeA/Pages/IDeA-Supported-Cores-and-Facilities.aspx
Notes: Listing and links to NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA)-supported cores and facilities that are open to the IDeA community.
