Facility and Equipment
The Microarray Core Facility consists of three sections: the Main Lab, the Array Fabrication Room, and the PCR Room. Each room houses the equipment and reagents needed to produce, hybridize, and image arrays, as well as to hybridize and scan Affymetrix GeneChips®.
Descriptions of the equipment in each room
Equipment used in the Microarray Core Facility:
- Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Lab-On-A-Chip) - RNA Quality Assurance (SAQC)
- NanoDrop® ND-1000 Spectrophotometer - RNA Quality Assurance (SAQC)
- Affymetrix Hybridization Oven 640 - Affymetrix GeneChip® Hybridization (AFFY)
- Nanostring nCounter® Prep Station-Processing of Nanostring samples
- Nanostring nCounter® Digital Analyzer-Scanning/Analyzing Nanostring results
- Affymetrix GCAS System - Automated High Throughput System for One-Cycle Affymetrix samples (AFFY)
- GeneChip® Fluidics Station 450 - Affymetrix GeneChip® Washing and Staining (AFFY)
- GeneChip® Scanner 3000 - Affymetrix GeneChip® Imaging (AFFY)
- Agilent Scanner-Imaging all Agilent arrays as well as some other printed slide arrays (cDNA)
- MAUI 4-bay Hybridization Station-Imaging for NimbleGen arrays as well as some other printed slide arrays (cDNA)
- Perkin Elmer Scanarray 5000 Scanner - cDNA Array Imaging (cDNA)
- Bio-Rad Gel Doc-Imaging electrophoretic gels (SAQC)
- Bio-Rad iCycler iQ Real Time PCR Detection System - Quantitative PCR Detection - For SuperArray processing ONLY!