Policies

Samples and workflow

  • All efforts will be made to conserve excess sample material submitted by the client. Any unused sample will be available for return to the client via pick-up or shipment (client must provide a FedEx account number) along with the data. Any unused sample material is forfeited if not claimed within three months of work completion notification. The GSR reserves the right to use any unclaimed material for protocol testing and proof-of-principle experiments, although any such work will be masked with respect to the biological relevance of these samples.
  • To minimize turn-around times, the shared resource stocks a variety of supplies and reagents for most commonly requested services. However, in the event that the GSR does not have some components in stock, an increase in lead-time may be necessary for client requests. In addition, to reduce overstock costs to our overall client community, the shared resource may request that the user provide their own reagents or supplies for more specialized requests.

Acknowledgement and authorship

  • The GSR asks that clients make sure to acknowledge the GSR as the genomics service provider in any manuscript, oral presentation, poster presentation or other published use of data generated by the GSR.
  • In addition to acknowledging the GSR as the genomics service provider, all clients must cite the Cancer Center Support Grant (NCI P30 CA93373) in the acknowledgements section of any manuscript, oral presentation, poster presentation, or other published use of data generated by the GSR.
  • If a member of the GSR staff contributes significant intellectual input to a project, he or she should be included as an author of any resulting publication. Intellectual input refers to written contribution to the manuscript, significant data analysis work or unique or extensive technical applications support.

Payment terms

  • A PPMS account is required to submit orders to the Genomics Shared Resource. The PPMS login page, which includes the user account creation form, can be found here. For additional questions or concerns, please contact ppms@ucdavis.edu or visit the PPMS resource page. 
    • PPMS is used to reserve instruments, request training, request services, and manage the financial accounts for payment of core charges.
    • Account creation enables you to provide your details for the account including contact information, institution, laboratory group, project information, and financial account number. This is fully described in “UC Davis Researchers: Quick-Start Guide to PPMS”.
  • In addition to UC Davis internal accounts, clients from other University of California campuses, non-UC academic institutions, and industry can submit orders through PPMS.
  • The financial account related to the project will be billed once the work is complete and data are provided to the client.
  • For large projects that span more than a month, the GSR may request monthly partial payment for the work that has been completed.