Equipment
Our equipment purchases were governed by:
- Throughput: we need to handle a large number of samples
- Service and support: we selected equipment that had a UK service team
- Ease of use: the equipment needs to be user friendly
- Cost: we ignored the ludicrously priced equipment
The equipment we have:
- Nanodrop ND 1000 spectrophotometer, Nanodrop
- Biomek NX liquid handling robot, Beckman Coulter
- Primus 4 block PCR station, MWG-Biotech
- Microgrid II Total Array system, BioRobotics
- Qarray2, Genetix
- G2545A Hybridization Oven, Agilent
- GeneTAC hybridisation station, Genomic Solutions
- Genechip Hybridization Oven 640, Affymetrix
- Genechip Fluidics Station 450, Affymetrix
- Genechip Scanner 3000 7G (with autoloader), Affymetrix
- GenePix 4000B, Axon
