Genomics Laboratory

MAUI Hybridization station for high-density microarrays

The Genomics Laboratory contains 12 bench stations and standard equipment for a fully operational molecular lab, including gel- electrophoresis systems and power supplies, refrigerators, -20°C freezers, 10 Revco -80°C freezers, three micro-centrifuges, balances, pH meter, autoclave, 3 fume hoods, 1 sterile flow bench and hood, mechanical and electronic pipettes, repeater pipettes, water baths, incubators, 2 environmental chambers, etc.

In addition, the Genomics Laboratory houses a vast amount of equipment specific to genomics research:

• Roche Genome Sequencer FLX
• GeneMachines Hydroshear DNA Shearing Device
• Beckman Coulter Z series particle counter
• Misonix Sonicator* S4000 Homogenizer
• Veritas Microdissection Instrument model 704 with IR capture laser and UV cutting laser with epifluorescence
• Beckman Coulter Biomek FX
• 2 MJ Research Tetrad thermal cyclers and 10 Eppendorf Mastercyclers
• ThermoSavant speedvac vacuum concentrator for microtitre plates
• Beckman Coulter Allegra 6R tabletop centrifuge
• Beckman Coulter Allegra 25R tabletop centrifuge
• Eppendorf Microcentrifuges Model 5424 and Model 5804 tabletop centrifuge
• Molecular Devices Spectra Max 190 microplate spectrophotometer
• Kodak 440CF Image station
• GeneMachines Omnigrid microarray printer
• Axon Instruments GenePix 4000A microarray scanner and GenePix 4200A microarray scanner
• 2 BioMicro Systems MAUI 4-bay hybridization stations
• Stratagene Mx3000P Quantitative PCR Thermal Cycle
• Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100
• NanoDrop ND-1000 Spectrophotometer
• Turner BioSystems TBS-380 Mini Fluorometer

For more details about equipment usage, visit the Genomics Research Portal.

Computing Infrastructure

The CGB started a Core Computing Facility in 2002 to meet the challenges and demands brought on by a growing number of research projects. Expansion of the computing infrastructure has been ongoing as more and more of these projects require dedicated storage and computational resources. The infrastructure also provides access to a wide variety of software for bioinformatics analysis, primarily through our BioPortal project. Currently the environment is home to 50 enterprise class systems ranging from 2-16 cores and 8-32GB memory each. Approximately 232 terabytes of raw storage capacity is available.

Visit the Core Computing Facility for complete details about the facility.

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