CENTRE FOR GENOME-ENABLED BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
CGEBM Booking Form
Please complete Part A of this form and submit it to CEGBM via email to: e.collieduguid@abdn.ac.uk. Please allow up to 1 week for consideration and return of the assessment to
you. Please indicate in your email if your grant deadline requires an earlier response.
Part A - To be completed by the applicant
Name of PI
PI contact details (full postal,
telephone, and email)
Affiliation (School/Institute)
(internal only)
Services Required
NGS
Microarray
Bioinformatics
Biostatistics
Data
Management
Data
Storage
Access to HPCC
(Maxwell)
Study title
Description of study
Does this study require Ethical
Approval?
Ethics Ref No
R&D ref No
Yes/ No
Data generated by CGEBM will be stored on University of Aberdeen secure network drives. Data analysed
within the CGEBM bioinformatics unit will also be transferred to the University of Aberdeen HPC, Maxwell.
CGEBM has no responsibility to obtain regulatory approvals for data storage and this is the sole responsibility
of the PI named above. Please stipulate if you require alternative data storage and provide details here:
Funding body
Study type (e.g. pilot, project grant,
programme grant, fellowship)
Submission deadline
Project start date
Duration of the project
Proposed CGEBM start date
Consultation date (CGEBM use)
GMO
Material provided
GMO Approval
CGEBM Project Form v4
Yes/ No
GMO/ cellular constituent
Copy provided (Approval and Handling SOP)/ Not applicable
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NGS (if NGS selected above, the applicant should complete this section)
Organism (common name)
Genus/ Species
Reference sequence for organism (Yes/No)
Size of target region
e.g. Genome, Transcriptome, amplicon
Ploidy (e.g. Haploid, diploid, etc)
Application (e.g. WGS, WES, RNAseq, ChIPseq,
BISseq, RADseq, metagenome, etc)
Principal Aim (e.g. differential gene expression, SNP/
variant calling, de novo assembly, miRNA, methylated
DNA, microbial diversity, etc)
Number of samples
Starting material (e.g. genomic DNA, amplicon, total
RNA, mRNA, ChIP DNA, cells etc) NOTE: we can only process
cells/ tissues of types covered by our containment levels/ approvals
Sample Status (Snap frozen, in TRIzol, in RNALater, etc)
Is this work part of a larger study with existing
NGS data that needs to be considered in the
design and/or choice of platform?
Bioinformatics required
Yes/ No
Biostatistics required
Yes/ No
If you have preferences for sequencing design specifications please add the relevant details below in
Part B, otherwise this section will be completed by CGEBM.
Microarrays (if Microarray selected above, the applicant should complete this section)
Organism (common name)
Genus/ Species
Application (gene expression, genotyping, etc)
Principal Aim (e.g. differential gene expression, SNP/
variant calling, miRNA expression, etc)
Number of samples
Starting material (e.g. genomic DNA, total RNA,
mRNA, cells, tissues etc) NOTE: we can only process cells/
tissues of types covered by our containment levels/ approvals
Sample Status (Snap frozen, in TRIzol, in RNALater, etc)
Service Required (e.g. HYB only; Cells to Chip; Cells to
QC’d data, etc)
Microarray required
Target Preparation Kit (If prepared by user, please state)
Poly A controls used (Where applicable, for user prepared Yes/ No
Volume (ul)
samples)
Is this work part of a larger study with existing
microarray data that needs to be considered in
the design and/or choice of microarray?
Bioinformatics required
Biostatistics required
CGEBM Project Form v4
Yes/ No
Yes/ No
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Part B – CGEBM use only
Technical assessment of project
CGEBM Reference
For NGS
NGS Platform
(Ion Proton/Illumina MiSeq)
Paired-end or single read
Coverage/Depth
Read length
Barcoded libraries
Library preparation
For Microarray
Microarray details above
complete
Date received by CGEBM
Technical assessment of project by:
CGEBM Description of work to be performed
NGS Costs
Biostatistics costs
Bioinformatics costs
Microarray costs
Data storage costs
Data Management costs
Miscellaneous costs
Access to HPCC (Maxwell)
Currently free at point of use. If funding available from the funding
body for this type of infrastructure, please discuss options with IT
Total costs
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CGEBM Booking Form
Please wait to sign this form until CGEBM has assessed your requirements and returned the form to
you with a proposal of the work to be performed.
To be completed and signed by PI prior to CGEBM commencing project:
NGS project
Date Samples Delivered
No. Samples
Sample Names
Grouping Information
(e.g. Group 1: Control – Samples 2, 4, 6; Group 2: timepoint
1 – Samples T1S2, T1S4, T1S6; Group 3 – timepoint 2 –
Samples T2S2, T2S4, T2S6)
Sequencing (wet lab to QC’d raw data)
Date results required
Expected Completion Date (Provided by CGEBM)
Completion Date (CGEBM use only)
Analysis: Bioinformatics/ biostatistics
Date results required
Expected Completion Date (Provided by
Bioinformatics)
Completion Date (CGEBM use only)
Microarray project
Date Samples Delivered
No. Samples
Sample Names
Grouping Information
(e.g. Group 1: Control – Samples 2, 4, 6; Group 2: timepoint
1 – Samples T1S2, T1S4, T1S6; Group 3 – timepoint 2 –
Samples T2S2, T2S4, T2S6)
Microarrays (wet lab to QC’d raw data)
Date results required
Expected Completion Date (Provided by CGEBM)
Completion Date (CGEBM use only)
Analysis: Bioinformatics/ biostatistics
Date results required
Expected Completion Date (Provided by
Bioinformatics)
Completion Date (CGEBM use only)
By signing this form you are agreeing to CGEBM staff performing the services specified in this
Technical Assessment above, at the quoted cost and under our Terms and Conditions
Signature:
Date:
CENTRE FOR GENOME-ENABLED BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
University of Aberdeen, 23 St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK AB24-3RY
Email: e.collie-duguid@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1224 437958
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CGEBM Project Form v4
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Web: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/genomics/
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