You are very welcome to prepare your own samples for analysis. Samples will be run by facility staff at a reduced fee used primarily to cover instrument maintenance costs. Please contact facility staff to discuss sample preparation and clean-up methods.

The timsTOF Pro2 is an extremely sensitive instrument. The limiting factor is usually liquid handling in sample preparation rather than protein concentration. The correct amount of sample needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. As a guide, for tryptic digests of cells 1 µL of 200ng/µL digest solution is usually the optimal amount of sample to load although results can be obtained from more dilute samples.

This varies with the annual funding cycle, but usually waiting times are less than two months.