Biochemists and Biophysicists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Amino acid analyzers
• Analytical balances
• Ultracentrifuges (Analytical ultracentrifuges)
• Lasers (Argon lasers)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Atomic force microscopes)
• Gamma counters (Auto gamma counters)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Autoclaves)
• Gel documentation systems (Automated electrophoresis equipment)
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Automatic pipetters)
• Medical imaging wet darkroom or daylight processors (Automatic x ray film developers)
• Laboratory balances (Balances)
• Osmometers (Basic vapor pressure osmometers)
• Laboratory beakers (Beakers)
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Cryogenic or liquid nitrogen freezers (Biofreezers)
• Safety hoods (Biological safety hoods)
• Polarizing microscopes (Brewster angle microscopes)
• Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis (Capillary electrophoresis equipment)
• Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Carbon dioxide CO2 incubators)
• Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters (Cell sorters)
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Charge-coupled device CCD cameras)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Chemical fume hoods)
• Chemistry analyzers
• Spectrometers (Circular dichroism spectroscopes)
• Chilling units or cold water circulators (Circulating water cooling systems)
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Computerized axial tomography CAT scan equipment)
• Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Confocal microscopes)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Continuous flow centrifuges)
• Microtomes (Cryocut microtomes)
• Cryogenic or liquid nitrogen freezers (Cryogenic freezers)
• Electron microscopes (Cryomicroscopes)
• Microtomes (Cryostat tissue microtomes)
• Transmission electron microscopes (Cryotransmission electron microscopes)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Cytospin centrifuges)
• Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies (Darkroom equipment)
• Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers (Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers)
• Desktop computers
• Optical beamsplitters (Dichroic beamsplitters)
• Calorimeters (Differential scanning calorimeters)
• Spectrometers (Dual wavelength spectroscopes)
• Electroencephalography EEG units or accessories (Electroencephalography EEG equipment)
• Electron microscopes
• Spectrometers (Electron paramagnetic resonance EPR spectrometers)
• Spectrometers (Electron spin resonance spectroscopes)
• Electrophoresis system power supplies (Electrophoresis power supplies)
• Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flasks)
• Standard fermentation units (Fermenters)
• Laboratory funnels (Filtering funnels)
• Flame ionization analyzers (Flame ionization detectors FID)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Flexi-dry lyophilizers)
• Microbiology analyzers (Flow cytometers)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Fluorescence spectroscopes)
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze dryers)
• Laboratory funnels (Funnels)
• Irradiation gamma sources (Gamma ray irradiators)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Gel boxes
• Laboratory adapters or connectors or fittings (Glassware adaptors)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Glassware condensers)
• Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated cylinders)
• Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers (Growth chambers)
• Dry baths or heating blocks (Heat blocks)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Heat incubators)
• Heating mantles or tapes (Heating mantles)
• Chemistry analyzers (Hemoglobin analyzers)
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters (High-pressure high-temperature reactors)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High-pressure liquid chromatographs)
• Homogenizers
• Laboratory hotplates (Hot plates)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Incubators)
• Inverted microscopes
• Ion analyzers (Ionometers)
• Calorimeters (Isothermal titration calorimeters ITC)
• Lasers (Krypton lasers)
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Laboratory convection ovens)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow hoods)
• Pressure indicators (Langmuir balances)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Large upright microscopes)
• Light scattering equipment (Laser Doppler zeta potential analyzers)
• Spectrometers (Laser induced temperature jump nanosecond relaxation spectrometer systems)
• Light scattering equipment (Laser particle sizers)
• Laser printers
• Lasers (Laser tweezers)
• Lasers
• Light scattering equipment (Light scattering devices)
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators (Linear accelerators)
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Liquid handling robots)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Liquid nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment)
• Piezo electric crystals (Magnetic piconewton-force transducers)
• Tweezers (Magnetic tweezers)
• Mainframe computers
• Mass spectrometers
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment)
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI microscopes)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Megafuge centrifuges)
• Analytical balances (Mettler balances)
• Calorimeters (Microcalorimeters)
• Microcentrifuges
• Radiobiological effect microdosimeters (Microdosimeters)
• Injectors (Microinjectors)
• pH meters (Microphysiometers)
• Microplate readers
• Microscope slides
• Paramagnetic susceptibility analyzers (Microsusceptometers)
• Spectrometers (Mossbauer spectroscopes)
• Light scattering equipment (Multi-angle elastic-light scattering systems)
• Mass spectrometers (Multichannel detectors)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Nanoscopes)
• Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Near-field light microscopes)
• Lasers (Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers)
• Notebook computers
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes)
• Tweezers (Optical tweezers)
• Orbital shakers
• Pasteur or transfer pipettes (Pasteur pipettes)
• Hematology or chemistry mixers (Peptide synthesizers)
• Personal computers
• pH meters
• Digital camcorders or video cameras (Phosphorimager video cameras)
• Electron guns (Phosphorimagers)
• Dropping pipettes (Pipettes)
• Plotter printers (Plotters)
• Medical positron emission tomography PET units (Positron emission tomography PET scanners)
• Signal conditioners (Power amplifiers)
• Protein analyzers (Protein sequencers)
• Spectrometers (Raman difference spectrometers)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (Refrigerated centrifuges)
• Rheometers
• X ray generators (Rotating anode X ray generators)
• Vacuum or centrifugal concentrators (Sample concentrators)
• Lasers (Sapphire lasers)
• Electronic toploading balances (Sartorius balances)
• Scanners
• Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
• Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Scanning laser microscopes)
• Liquid scintillation counters (Scintillation counters)
• Shaking incubators
• Orbital shaking water baths (Shaking waterbaths)
• Signal generators
• Lasers (Solid state diode lasers)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment)
• Ultrasonic disintegrators (Sonicators)
• Laboratory balances (Specific gravity balances)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Spectrofluorimeters)
• Spectrophotometers
• Polarimeters (Spectropolarimeters)
• Spectrophotometers (Stopped-flow spectrophotometers)
• X ray generators (Synchrotrons)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Tabletop centrifuges)
• Multipurpose or general test tubes (Test tubes)
• Heat tracing equipment (Thermal imagers)
• Electronic toploading balances (Top-loading electronic balances)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Transillumination microscopes)
• Transmission electron microscopes (Transmission electron microscopes TEM)
• Ultracentrifuges
• Microtomes (Ultramicrotomes)
• Ultrasonic cleaning equipment (Ultrasonic cleaners)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes)
• Transilluminators (Ultraviolet UV transilluminators)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Vacuum freezers)
• Tissue processors (Vibratome tissue sectioning systems)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Video enhanced differential interference contrast microscopes)
• Camera controllers (Video positioning equipment)
• Viscosimeters (Viscometers)
• Water baths
• Ultra violet water purification units (Water purification units)
• X ray diffraction equipment (X ray crystallography equipment)
• Electron microscopes (X ray microscopes)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Assisted model building with energy refinement AMBER software
• ABAQUS software
• Accelrys Cerius2
• Accelrys FELIX
• PREMIER Biosoft Array Designer
• Accelrys QAUNTA
• Statistical software
• Analysis and building software
• Crystallography & NMR System CNS software
• SAS software
• Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
• Carrier-mediated transport software
• Chang Bioscience ToolKit
• Semichem AMPAC
• Chemistry at Harvard Molecular Mechanics CHARMm software
• Crystallographic software
• Shrodinger Jaguar
• Docking and ligand binding software
• Spartan software
• SPSS software
• Structure prediction software
• Equilibrate software
• ESRI What if?
• Expression DNA and protein sequence software
• Fujitsu BioMedCache
• Fujitsu MOPAC
• Gaussian software
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Genetics computer group GSG software
• Gepasi software
• Tripos SYBYL
• Video analysis software
• Voltage-gated ion channels software
• Hodgkin-Huxley Model software
• Wavefunction Titan
• Yet another scientific artificial reality application YASARA software
• Laboratory information management system LIMS software
• Macroscopic diffusion software
• Molecular simulation software
• Multivariate statistical program MVSP software

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Accelrys Insight II
• ChemInnovation Software Chem 4-D
• 3D graphics software

• Data base user interface and query software

• eNotebook software
• Sequence database software

• Data mining software

• Golden Helix ChemTree
• Golden Helix HelixTree

• Electronic mail software

• Email software

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
• AutoQuant AutoDeblur
• Elsevier MDL ISIS/Draw
• GE Healthcare ImageQuant TL
• Graphics software
• Intelligent Imaging Innovations SlideBook
• Molecular Devices Corporation MetaFluor
• Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
• Molecular Simulations WebLab ViewerPro
• JustBio SeqPainter

• Information retrieval or search software

• Molecular Networks GmbH Biochemical Pathways

• Internet browser software

• Internet browser software

• Inventory management software

• ItemTracker software

• Object or component oriented development software

• Python
• Practical extraction and reporting language Perl

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Operating system software

• Linux

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Presentation software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word
• Word processing software

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