Center for Plant Genomics
Center for Plant Genomics Plant Sciences Institute Iowa State University

Genomic Technologies Facility - Instrumentation

2025 Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory
515-294-7491

The Genomic Technologies Facility is equipped with a MassARRAY® system (SEQUENOM Inc.) with Nanodispenser for transfer of samples onto SpectroChips and a MALDI TOF mass spectrometer for automatic data acquisition; Cartesian PixSys 5500 Arrayer with an automated microtiter plate stacker/destacker for generating microarrays, which are housed in a controlled humidity chamber. The Facility also includes a high-throughput ProScanArrayHT microarray scanner (PerkinElmer), an automatic Lucidea SlidePro Hybstation (Amersham Biosciences), a Leica CM1850 cryostat, several PTC-225 DNA Engine Tetrad Cycler (MJ Research, Inc), a PALM micro laser and a real-time PCR system Mx4000 (Stratagene). Software available for microarray data capture and analysis include Biodiscovery, Inc.'s CloneTracker™ and ImaGene™ software products.

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Palm Microlaser
PALM Microlaser
PTC-225 DNA Engine Tetrad Cycler
MJ Research, Inc. PTC-225 DNA Engine Tetrad Cycler
Stratagene Mx4000
Stratagene Mx4000 multiplex quantitative PCR system
Lucidea SlidePro Hybstation
Amersham Biosciences Lucidea SlidePro Hybstation

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 Cartesian PixSys 5500 Arrayer
Cartesian PixSys 5500 Arrayer
Leica CM1850 Cryostat
Leica CM1850 Cryostat
Pro Scan Array HT
Pro Scan Array HT
MassARRAY Spectrometer
MassARRAY Spectrometer