Equipment and Services

This laboratory provides the techniques and equipment from Affymetrix for gene expression profiling as well as large-scale SNP detection and genotyping. The Affymetrix GeneChip Microarray System consists of a Hybridization Oven, the Fluidics Station 400, the GeneChip^® Scanner 3000 and a powerful computer workstation with dual Xeon processors, loaded with GeneChip^® Operating Software (GCOS).

GeneChip data often need to be confirmed by single-gene oriented analytical approaches such as real-time PCR. The core is equipped with the ABI PRISM^® 7700 Sequence Detection System, which utilizes real-time PCR. Along with this equipment, the core provides the necessary software for the analysis of data. Consulting services are available for experimental design, assay choice and comparison, as well as for grant proposal and manuscript preparation..