Equipment Available
1. PacBio Sequel IIe
The first of its kind in Malaysia, our PacBio Sequel IIe system provides all scientists with access to high throughput, cost-effective, highly accurate long-read sequencing (HiFi reads). With on-board computational power, it reduces the time required for secondary analysis and provides an overall reduction in file transfer and data storage needs.
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2. Illumina MiSeq System
A compact, low to medium throughput benchtop sequencer for rapid and cost-effective nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) sequencing.
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3. Oxford Nanopore Technologies: MinION
The world's only portable and real-time device for DNA and RNA sequencing, providing long reads using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Platform.
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4. Biomek 4000 Automated Workstation
A compact, low throughput liquid handling system ideal for standardizing small-scale daily pipetting routines, while ensuring quality and consistency of sample processing, generating repeatable and reliable results.
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5. Femto Pulse System
The Femto Pulse System provides researchers with a powerful and automated pulsed-field capillary electrophoresis system. It easily achieve 10 times higher sensitivity for smears and up to 100 times for fragments. A meticulously designed optical detection platform and pulsed-field power enable unprecedented sensitivity, detecting nucleic acids into the lower femtogram range.
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6. Agilent 4200 TapeStation System
The 4200 TapeStation System is an established, high-throughput automated electrophoresis platform for nucleic acid sample quality control. Building on the success of the proven ScreenTape technology, it allows fully automated, easy, and reliable analysis of DNA and RNA samples for up to 96 samples per run.
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7. BluePippin
Precise automated DNA size selection for massively parallel high-throughput sequencing using pulsed-field electrophoresis, separating and collecting high-quality DNA fragments from 100 bp to 50 kb.
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8. Agilent TapeStation 2200
Economical and rapid determination of DNA and RNA integrity, size and quantity through automated system
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9. Life Technologies Qubit® 2.0 Fluorometer: Quantification Assay for DNA and RNA
Rapid and accurate quantification of microvolumes of DNA and RNA based on fluorescence.
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10. Covaris M220 Focused-Ultrasonicator™: DNA Shearing
High-quality fragmentation of DNA prior to library preparation.
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11. Thermo Fisher Scientific Nanodrop 2000 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Provide quantitative and qualitative measurements for DNA, RNA and proteins.
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12. Agilent Technologies 2100 Bioanalyzer System
A microfluidic-based platform that allows rapid and accurate sizing, quantification and quality control of DNA, RNA, proteins and cells.
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13. T100 Thermal Cycler
Instrument that employs precise temperature control and rapid temperature changes to conduct amplification of nucleic acids by means of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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14. ALPS™ 50 V Microplate Heat Sealer Thermo Scientific™
To apply consistent, secure, tight seals around individual wells, eliminating sample loss through evaporation and cross-contamination between wells. Mostly used for PacBio Sequel IIe application in the laboratory.
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15. Multiple high-end workstations (Bioinformatics and Big Data Laboratory)
We have 30 workstations running on Ubuntu OS available for use by Monash academics and research students for high throughput genomics data analysis. They are located in our Bioinformatics and Big Data Laboratory Room 3-3-19. This room also supports the teaching and research projects of the Major "Genomics and Bioinformatics" under the School of Science Bachelor of Science Degree. External collaborators are also welcome to use these computers for research. Please contact us for more details.
[Obsolete] Life Technologies Ion Torrent Sequencer System (now Thermo Fisher Scientific)
A sequencer that combines semiconductor sequencing technology with natural biochemistry for real-time sequencing detection
Top Left: Template preparation Ion OneTouch™ 2 Instrument
Top Right: Ion OneTouch™ Enrichment System ES
Bottom: Life Technologies Ion Personal Genome Machine™ Sequencer