Guidelines for Service Requests

The Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) is available for consultation and collaboration at any stage of your research. However, we strongly recommend that you contact YCAS as you begin to plan your project.

• By contacting us early we can ensure that we can identify the personnel and resources needed to meet the needs of your project
• By contacting our team early, we can help design a study that yields valid data and testable hypotheses.
• By collaborating with us throughout the project, from design to analysis, through manuscript writing, our scientists can best understand your challenges and help you produce a rigorous presentation of your findings.
• At times, our analytical scientists can identify data sets that lead to secondary publications not originally envisioned by the researcher.