DNA Barcoding
Game-changing strategy, incomparable costs, custom contracts
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🧬 DNA barcoding options to help build reference libraries and identify unknown specimens from a wide variety of plants, wildlife, and parasites.
We are increasingly developing innovative methods to slash costs and help research impacts extend further with every dollar. |
The Kartzinel Lab's Florensic Panel is an innovative approach to multi-marker plant DNA barcoding for a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.
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Plan Your Project
Begin by considering your project goals and sample requirements. We can support projects that vary in scope from initial pilot analyses to large-scale investments that require the highest-quality results. Check these options for details:
Options & pricing can be customized to include:
A novel panel for plant DNA barcoding that we developed in the lab provides 6 standard markers for the price of one. Ideal for projects of ~50-400 samples at a time, this approach provides richer and more accurate datasets at a fraction of historical costs.
✓ DNA extraction
✓ PCR of 6 standard plant DNA barcodes (rbcL, matK, trnH-psbA, trnL-F, ITS-1, and ITS-2).
✓ Extremely cost effective nanopore sequencing
✓ Bioinformatic analyses supported by extensive benchmarking
✓ PCR of 6 standard plant DNA barcodes (rbcL, matK, trnH-psbA, trnL-F, ITS-1, and ITS-2).
✓ Extremely cost effective nanopore sequencing
✓ Bioinformatic analyses supported by extensive benchmarking
Leading North American companies and institutes advertise rates of ~$4,000 - $7,200 for six markers that cover only 96 samples;
Our protocol can meet and beat these costs by an estimated ~3-6x, depending on project sizes and options.
Our protocol can meet and beat these costs by an estimated ~3-6x, depending on project sizes and options.
Our most cost-competitive panel right now focuses on plant DNA barcoding, but other panels are quickly catching up!
Take a look at our growing catalog of standard protocols to get a better sense for what we may have in development and contact the PI about options that may work for ecology & conservation projects.
Take a look at our growing catalog of standard protocols to get a better sense for what we may have in development and contact the PI about options that may work for ecology & conservation projects.
Depending on the scope of your work, we may be able to provide training or development support that helps you turn a research idea into a fundable proof of concept.
Contact the PI to discuss your project needs and dreams.
Contact the PI to discuss your project needs and dreams.
Problems → Solutions
We are extending our highly subsidized internal rates to collaborators, who get more data for the dollar:
Typical project costs are less than one-third of the leading fee-for-service labs.
Typical project costs are less than one-third of the leading fee-for-service labs.
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Challenges you face
“Selecting a standard barcode” ”Scaling-up with replication” “Ballooning project costs” “Limited transparency in data handling” |
Our solutions
✓ Multi-marker panel gives 6 barcodes for the cost one ✓ Pool hundreds of samples in a single run ✓ Declining per-sample costs with project size ✓ Over a decade of open-science leadership in the field |
Keys to Success
🤝 Collaborative, Not Commercial – we are your research partners, not your vendors.
📄 Custom Contracts – tailored terms, timelines, and deliverables to your project.
🧬 Scientific Leadership – more than 15 years pioneering dietary DNA metabarcoding methods.
💸 Exceptional Value – full projects for ~33% of commercial cost without cutting corners.
📄 Custom Contracts – tailored terms, timelines, and deliverables to your project.
🧬 Scientific Leadership – more than 15 years pioneering dietary DNA metabarcoding methods.
💸 Exceptional Value – full projects for ~33% of commercial cost without cutting corners.
How We'll Start Your Project
Step 1. Define Objectives – collaborate to define project scope and outcomes.
Step 2. Contract & Project Setup – flexible terms, transparent and predictable costs, clarity on deliverables.
Step 3. Data Delivery & Interpretation – publication-ready data archived publicly at boldsystems.org.
Step 2. Contract & Project Setup – flexible terms, transparent and predictable costs, clarity on deliverables.
Step 3. Data Delivery & Interpretation – publication-ready data archived publicly at boldsystems.org.
Next steps
Review our example_contract for a medium-to-large plant DNA barcoding project.
Know that "Exhibit A" would be customized to meet your needs.
Then contact the lab to discuss your goals and learn more.
Know that "Exhibit A" would be customized to meet your needs.
Then contact the lab to discuss your goals and learn more.