re: Pseq costs
lsiconolfi-baez@netmail.hscbklyn.edu
Tue, 21 Apr 98 09:04:03 -0500
Jacek and friends,
In preparaing cost accounting procedures for our facility, we
analyzed the one year period from Oct '96 to '97 using the Procise 494
cLC. The reagent, column, lamp... cost was $6.65 per cycle. If you add
in the cost of a current contract ($12,644), divided over the 2,205
cycle we ran that year, the cost goes to $12.40. This does not include
personal service costs. Maintenance hours needed to keep the sequencer
going are not insignificant. A three week detailed time accounting
analysis showed that 2.5 hours a day went into sequencer maintenance.
That included changing reagents and guard columns, buffer preparation,
system checking (watching dry downs and transfers), log keeping (I
keep records of lamp voltage, HPLC running pressure, column life,
cycles run by type...), hard drive clean up (trashing data, printing
the event log...), minor repairs, setting up test runs (BLG for yield
analyses and standards) and general cleanup.
These instruments are expensive to run!
Linda
Big Apple Minute
I'm looking forward to meeting the camels (and more, the tickets say)
on Lincoln Center Plaze, at the Wildlife Conservation Society annual
meeting tonight. That the storm that traveled up the east coast
yesterday is gone, the clouded sky of this morning is breaking up, and
apple blossums and dogwood are in full bloom, makes the anticipation
greater.
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Siconolfi-Baez
Core Protein Sequencing Center
SUNY Health Science Cntr.
450 Clarkson Ave.
Box 8
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11203
718-270-1267 (phone)
718-270-3316 (fax)
lsiconolfi-baez@netmail.hscbklyn.edu
http://www.hscbklyn.edu/SUNY/Biochem/Bioparts/ProtSeq.html
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