Stretch!
Only 7 more days until this campaign is over!
This crowd funding experience has gone in ways that I never really anticipated. As an all-or-nothing campaign, I fretted at first that it would perhaps fail, and no funds would be raised. But, unexpectedly, there was an overwhelming outpouring of support within the first week, and by about 10 days in, the campaign was fully funded.
Then my field work and the busyness of the holiday season set in, and there hasn't been much activity on the campaign.
The stretch goal of $5000 is almost enough to cover the cost of getting the RADseq data. The company from which I'm getting the formal quote, Global Biologics, looks like it does a per sample cost about 30% lower than other companies I've investigated. This would put the sequencing at approximately $6000, as opposed to as much as $8500 from other providers. Yet, the work that Global Biologics offers for their low price will provide an incredible data set, unprecedented in the Cactaceae and of unusual depth for any landscape genetics study.
Over the next seven days, I'll be promoting the campaign daily to work toward that stretch goal. Thanks again to all of the backers who have so generously contributed to this project.
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