How to get started?
For more details please write us in email fimm-metabolomics@helsinki.fi.
Sample types and requirements:
Sample Matrices type |
Sample Sub-matrices type |
Minimum quantity |
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Biofluids
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Serum, Plasma, Urine, Cell culture supernatants, Saliva, CSF, Bile, Cystic fluid, Bioflims etc. |
110 µL |
Cells |
Adherent, Suspension, Bone marrow, MEF etc |
1-2 million |
Tissues |
Muscle, Liver, Brain, Heart, Lung, Placenta, Spleen, Uterus, Pancreas, Testes etc |
10-20 mg |
Faeces |
|
20-50 mg |
Dried blood Spots |
punched spots |
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C.elegans |
|
2000-4000 worms |
S.cerevisae |
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biomass |
E.coli |
|
biomass |
Dental carries |
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Sample Collections:
Quenching protocols for cell samples will be provided.
Sample storage:
Please store the samples at -80°C immediately after the collection.
Sample delivery:
Please deliver the frozen samples on dry ice to us.
Sample tubes:
If you are freshly collecting the samples then we would prefer to have the samples in 1.5 ml eppendorf tubes. If samples are already collected and stored in other types of tubes, no problem we can process here.
Sample list:
Please send us the sample list on email fimm-metabolomics@helsinki.fi in an excel file format with all the relevant details i.e., sample names, genotype, phenotype, type of sample, oganism, age, gender, treatment information (dietary or drug), available clinical data, time series data, additional information, tissue weights, cell number, protein quantification if available, if you would like to have your extra samples back or not etc.
Shipping address:
Laboratory co-ordinator
Metabolomics Unit,
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM
Biomedicum Helsinki 2U, room E204b
Tukholmankatu 8
00290 Helsinki, Finland
Pricing
Pricing is according to University of Helsinki pricing guidlines, and price per sample covers running costs, salaries of personnel, instrument maintenance and service contracts.
Pricing is subsidised for University of Helsinki researchers, other national and international academic groups and also for population cohorts (> 500 samples).
Different pricing is available for different sample types due to the nature of different extraction procedures.
For exact price and quatations please feel free to write us by email fimm-metabolomics@helsinki.fi.