Molecular and Cellular Biologists
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters (Automated cell counters)
- Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers (Automated DNA sequencing equipment)
- Automated microscope stages (Automated microscopes)
- Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Automatic carbon dioxide CO2 incubators)
- Plate incubators (Bacterial plate incubators)
- Centrifuge tubes
- Photo attachments for microscopes (Charge-coupled device CCD cameras)
- Fume hoods or cupboards (Chemical hoods)
- Laboratory dishes (Cloning cylinders)
- General cloning vectors (Cloning kits)
- Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Computerized axial tomography CAT scanners)
- Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (Cooled benchtop centrifuges)
- Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid cDNA synthesis kits (Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA synthesizers)
- Desktop computers
- Heating or drying equipment or accessories (Dessicators)
- Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Dissecting microscopes)
- Electrophoresis system accessories (Electrophoresis cameras)
- Eyewashers or eye wash stations (Emergency eye wash stations)
- Microbiology analyzers (Flow cytometers)
- Fluorescent microscopes (Fluorescence microscopes)
- Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Fluorimeters)
- Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatography equipment)
- Gel documentation systems (Gel electrophoresis equipment)
- Transilluminators (Gel imaging apparatus)
- Laboratory beakers (Glass beakers)
- Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Gradiant thermocyclers)
- Dry baths or heating blocks (Heat blocks)
- High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
- Inverted microscopes (Inverted binocular microscopes)
- Binocular light compound microscopes (Laboratory binocular optical microscopes)
- Chemical or gas sterilizers (Laboratory chemical autoclaves)
- Floor centrifuges (Laboratory floor centrifuges)
- General purpose refrigerators or refrigerator freezers (Laboratory freezers)
- Orbital shakers (Laboratory orbital shakers)
- Pasteur or transfer pipettes (Laboratory transfer pipettes)
- Laboratory vacuum pumps
- Water baths (Laboratory water baths)
- Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow hoods)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners (Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems)
- Stirring hotplates (Magnetic stirring hot plates)
- Manual single channel positive displacement pipetters (Manual single channel positive displacement pipettes)
- Manual single channel repeating pipetters
- Mass spectrometers
- Laboratory balances (Microbalances)
- Microcentrifuges
- Microplate readers
- Electronic multichannel pipetters (Multichannel micropipettes)
- Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes)
- Hybridization ovens or incubators (Nucleic acid hybridization ovens)
- Personal computers
- pH meters (pH analyzers)
- Electron guns (Phosphorimagers)
- Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
- Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR thermocyclers)
- Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Robotic fluidics stations)
- Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
- Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Scanning laser confocal microscopes)
- Immunology or serology test kits or supplies (Serological kits)
- Spectrophotometers
- Benchtop centrifuges (Tabletop centrifuges)
- Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Thermocyclers)
- Spectrophotometers (Ultraviolet-Visible UV/VIS spectrophotometers)
- Volumetric pipettes (Variable volume pipettes)
- Vortex mixers (Vortex rotators)
- Ultra pure water systems (Water purification systems)
- Tissue culture incubators (Yeast culture incubators)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- AcaClone pDRAW32
- Agilent CGH Analytics
- Agilent Technologies GeneSpring GX
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- Blast Output Browser BOB
- ClustalW
- CRI-MAP
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Delila
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- EnzymeX
- FASTA
- FASTLINK
- Gene Recognition and Assembly Internet Link GRAIL
- Genotyping software
- Geospiza GeneSifter
- GraphPad Software GraphPad Prism
- Laboratory information management system LIMS software
- Magma
- Mendel
- Michigan State University MSU ProFlex
- Minitab software
- NetPrimer
- PHYLIP
- Primer3 software
- RasMol
- Textco BioSoftware Gene Inspector
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Mathsoft Mathcad
- Data base user interface and query software
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA libraries
- Data mining software
- Data mining software
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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