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Prepare your experiment
Create an account or login
Fill-in requested info
Organize sample drop-off
Get results
Prepare your experiment
- Meet with the PCF's experts
- Discuss the research question and aims of the experiment
- Define the optimal experimental design
- Prepare the samples and the requested controls
Create a PCFpro account
- Sign-up with your email
- Confirm your account
- Log-in
- In the first log-in, update the "My infos" and "My billing infos" tabs (you need to import this information once)
Fill-in requested information
Create a PCFpro project
- Click on "New Project"
- Billing: Select the Billing info from the drop-down menu
- Title: Provide a short title of your project
- Description: Provide a short and informative description of the project and the research question
- Project type: Select the project type from the drop-down menu (see below the explanation of different options)
- Comments: including post-translational modifications of interest and specific proteins
- Sample state: Select the sample state from the drop-down menu
- Buffer composition: Indicate the buffer composition of your sample
- Hit Continue: 2 new tabs appear (Metadata and Analysis & Billing)
Project categories
- Protein ID: basic protein identification experiment
- PTMs identification and localization: post-translational modification identification and localization
- Proteome-wide relative quantitation: relative quantitation across samples (with label or label-free)
- Targeted or Absolute quantitation: absolute quantitation of selected proteins
- Pull-down-MS: analysis of enriched sub-proteomes (immunoprecipitation, biotinilated proteins enrichment)
- LC-MS/MS analysis of samples: analysis of processed samples
- SILAC incororation assessment : assessing the metabolic labelling incorporation
Import relevant information and samples
- Go to Metadata
- Search for the organism of interest, select and hit +Add
- In case of custom sequences, enter the sequence name and the sequence in a fasta format and hit +Add
- Add the image (png, jpeg) of your gel (if applicable) by browsing and hit Update (you can delete with the delete button). In case of multiple gels please compile them in one file
- Hit Data analysis if you want us to provide you with a full report
Organize sample drop-off
- Send an email at pcf@epfl.ch to schedule the sample drop-off
Get results
- Log in to your account to see the status of your project(s)
- When your project is completed we will contact you via email
- Access the results through the "files" tab