Services & Plans
Services (for physical samples)
Research Inventory Management Services Through SE
Besides our digital platform, we also offer the next generation of sample storage and inventory management.
For Nonprofits and Academia
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Upload your samples, share, collaborate and build your network of colleagues
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Nominal Fee Services: We can help you manage your samples. For instance, we can help you set up a Material Transfer Agreement (MTA), help you with out-licensing, and so on. These services are available for a small nominal fee to cover legal costs.
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Discounted Sample Management Services: We can help you manage your sample collection. We will index and catalog it, and we can serve as a hub for your research needs!
For Businesses, Private/For-profit Enterprises
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Sample & Data Management Services: Let us help you with your sample management needs
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Marketplace: An online ecommerce destination for monetizing your products
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Short-term (transient) Storage: Do you have high-value samples that you would like to store securely for a short period of time? We can help you with your needs. Please give us a call (see below for plans and info).
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Long-term Storage: Do you have samples that you don’t need right away but don’t want to discard? We can store your samples for the long term at highly reduced costs (see below for plans and info).
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Customized Sample Management Services: We can create a customized plan that suits your needs. Please contact us and talk to our team.
Storage
Sample Exchange offers the next-generation of storage and interactive services that are very different than traditional storage or bio-banking. Consider the exchange as part of your lab or institution.
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Fully digitized and fully trackable ecosystems that are project based. Don't maintain inventory, leave it to us.
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Collaborate through the SE platform, license or even sell specimens that are not needed
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No nickel-and-diming, the plan covers everything including retrieval and shipping
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Next day and 2nd-day air services are available so no interrupting your experiments
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Many more perks...
Storage Plans
Sample Exchange services are not expensive, and we are proud of that. You can even bank some samples with us for free! That said, we note that no two storage requirements are the same. We will customize our plans for you and build a price chart.
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Description of access levels is below
Individual Labs (indiv. boxes)
Small collections (100-500 boxes)
Large collections, Industry
Permanent
Semi-permanent
Intermediate-active
Active
On-demand
$0.99/box/month
$2.99/box/month
$4.99/box/month
$9.99/box/month
Custom
$0.50/box/month
$0.99/box/month
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Customized Sample Management and Storage Services
Sample Exchange offers customized storage at various hubs within the country (note typically 4 weeks of lead time is needed for planning and operationalizing your account).
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Western Hub 1 – San Francisco Bay Area (E.g. serving NorCal, SoCal, NM, AZ, CO and nearby states)
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Western Hub 2 – Seattle (E.g. Serving WA, ID, WY, OR and nearby states)
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Central Hub 1 – Greater Chicago and surrounding
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Central Hub 2 – Greater Dallas and surrounding
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Eastern Hub 1 – Philadelphia/Baltimore and surrounding
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Eastern Hub 2 – Greater Atlanta and surrounding
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US National Permanent Archive: TBD (Nevada)
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International (per country): TBD
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India Hub (TBD)
Storage levels and plans
Storage levels and plans are determined by number of access requests you anticipate in an year for your samples. Don’t worry if you need access on an emergency basis, we are happy to accommodate!
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Permanent Archive (Access once every year if needed)
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Semi-permanent Archive (Up to 4 access requests every year)
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Intermediate-active (Up to 10 requests every year)
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Active (Up to 2 requests very month)
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On demand (Anytime)
Biosafety Level X (BSL) Samples
Please contact us to discuss BSL plans
Liquid Nitrogen plans
Please contact us to discuss LN plans