Sequencing services Germany

If DNA sequencing is not done in house in your institution, several convenient Sanger and increasingly deep sequencing commercial services exist. Typically, samples are picked up at regular times in your institute or nearby, sequenced, and results posted online. Many companies use prepaid labels to both identify and pay for the sequencing.

Prices are estimates and vary with negotiated discounts. They also don't include taxes as customary on the company websites. Net prices will be about 20% higher due to VAT. Please add you favorite company or comment on the existing.

Price comparison

€/seq	product	company	comment
€3.5	Light Run	GATC	incl. university discount
€4.5	Supreme	GATC	incl. university discount; incl. some trouble shooting services
€3.1	SmartSeq	eurofins	incl. university discount
€4.5	ValueRead	eurofins	incl. university discount; seq. primer optional
€4	Economy	SeqLab	incl. university discount

Companies

GATC

• €4-3.5 own primers "light run", €5 "supreme"
• based in Konstanz, Germany [1]
• pickup e.g. Tübingen, HNO (list of collection points after login)

sample preparation: 20µl DNA 30-100 ng/µl, 20µl primer 10µM = 10pmol/µl

eurofins

• €3.1 "SmartSeq" (minitubes; 96 tubes minimum purchase; primer needs to be added)
• €4.5 "Value Read" (tube format; 90 available standard primers or own)
• based in Ebersberg, near Munich [2]
• pickup e.g. Tübingen, IFIB

Seqlab

• €5 per barcode "Economy Run"; €3.90 500 barcodes
• based in Göttingen

See also

• Sequencing DNA
• Optimizing Sample for Sequencing