Equipment
Specimen Processing:
Laminar flow hoods
fume hoods
CO2 cell culture incubators for swinging bucket centrifuge
microcentrifuge
refrigerated microcentrifuge
superspeed refrigerated centrifuge/microfuge
rotary tissue homogenizer
Polytron
liquid nitrogen storage unit
standard 4oC refrigeration units
chromatography refrigerators
Short Tandem Repeat Polymorphism (STRP) Genotyping:
ABI 3730
ABI 3100
ABI 3700
MJ Research Tetrad thermal cyclers
Robbins Hydra-96 parallel robotic pipetters (one each for pre- and post-PCR)
swinging bucket centrifuge
microcentrifuge
ABI 7900HT Sequence Detection system
two computers with Genotyper software
GeneMapper software
Progeny genetic relational database software
Sun workstation for data analysis
DNA Sequencing:
ABI Prism Model 3100 (16-capillary) Genetic Analyzers
ABI 3730, an ABI 3700, and an ABI 3100 DNA Analyzer
Array laboratory:
Affymetrix 417 Arrayer
Affymetrix 418 Array Scanner (in-depth information)
TaqMan TM:
ABI Prism 7900HT
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analyses:
ABI 3730
ABI 3700
ABI 3100
ABI Prism 7900HT
Ciphergen:
PBSIIc Ciphergen ProteinChip� system
Difference Gel Electrophoresis (DiGE):
BioRad Protean IEF (1st dimension)
BioRad Protean Dodeca cell electrophoresis chamber (2nd dimension)
Mass Spectrometry:
ThermoFinnigan LCQ Deca XP plus ion trap MS, with a nanosource ESI.