Quantitative Biology Center

Instrumentation

Overview

The equipment of QBiC envelopes following areas:

Genomics/Transcriptomics

 The equipment of QBiC’s member labs envelopes following areas:

c.ATG Services / Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Equipment:

  • Illumina HiSeq 2500
  • Illumina MiSeq
  • Illumina NextSeq 550
  • Illumina NovaSeq 6000
  • Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION
  • Oxford Nanopore Technologies PromethION
  • PacBio Sequel
  • 10X Genomics
  • 2x Affymetrix GeneChip Scanners 3000 7G, 4x Fluidics

Additional Equipment:

  • Agilent BioAnalyzer 2100 capillary electrophoresis
  • Nanodrop ND-1000 UV spectrophotometer
  • ABI 3730xl DNA Analyzer (Applied Biosystems)
  • Pipetting robot (Beckman Coulter Biomek® 2000)
  • DNA isolation robot (Qiagen BioRobot 8000)
  • S2 Series (Covaris)
  • Hydroshear plus
  • Qubit (Invitrogen)
  • CHEF-DR III (Bio-Rad)

For qPCR:

  • Roche Lightcycler© LC480

Proteomics

Proteome Center Tübingen (PCT) / Core Facility for Medical Bioanalytics (CFMB)

Equipment

  • LTQ-Orbitrap XL (mass spectrometer)
  • LTQ-Orbitrap Velos (mass spectrometer)
  • LTQ-Orbitrap Elite (mass spectrometer)
  • Orbitrap Fusion (mass spectrometer)
  • qExactive (mass spectrometer)

Metabolomics

Analytics Unit, Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) / Core Facility for Medical Bioanalytics (CFMB)

Equipment:

  • UPLC (liquid chromatographer)
  • nHPLC (liquid chromatographer)
  • Agilent GC-MS (gaschromatographer/MS)
  • SynaptG2 (mass spectrometer)
  • QTRAP 6500 (mass spectrometer)

Structural Biology

AG Schreiber (http://www.soft-matter.uni-tuebingen.de/), Institute for Applied Physics, University of Tübingen

Equipment: