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General Information About Use of the Keck
Facility
Supporting letters for grant applications
If you are preparing a grant application that depends upon services that will be
provided by the Keck Facility, we encourage you to consult the remaining Keck Facility Web
Pages for a description of services available and for information concerning sample
preparation. Additional queries may be directed to the Manager of the
appropriate section of the Keck Facility or may be sent via email to the Director,
Ken Williams. In addition, if you would like a
letter of support from the Keck Facility, you should email to Ken a brief description of
the intended project and of the services that will be needed from the Keck Facility. If
the project falls within the technical capabilities of the Keck Facility we will be glad
to provide a letter of support.
Publication of data obtained by the W.M. Keck Facility
Publications that utilize data obtained by (or synthetic oligonucleotides or peptides
made by) the Keck Facility should contain an acknowledgment to the W.M. Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory at Yale
University. Since there are more than 40 staff members in the Keck
Facility, it is quite possible that the staff member that summarized and forwarded the
data you received or that gave you the oligo you had synthesized may well not
have been the staff member(s) that actually carried out the work. Hence, generally we
advise against acknowledging individual Keck Facility Staff. It is very
important, however, that you acknowledge the Keck Facility and that you forward copies of
all such publications to Ken Williams. The latter provide a critical contribution to the
NIH and NSF Shared Instrumentation Grants that provide the funds that enable this facility
to continue to acquire the state-of-the-art instrumentation upon which your analyses and
syntheses depend. If your publication contains significant protein chemistry data acquired
in the Keck Facility, we recommend that prior to publication you email excerpts of the
manuscript page(s) that contain or discuss this data to Ken Williams so that it may be quickly
reviewed prior to submission. The charge for this consulting service is $60/hr.
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