Facility for Genomics and Proteomics and UFSNBN Bioinformatics Node

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Facility for Genomics and ProteomicsandUFS-NBN
Bioinformatics Node
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Facility for Genomics and Proteomics
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Lab 39A Biotechnology Building
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Equipment available

• AKTA FPLC
• Purification of proteins
• Characterization
• Crystallization
• Identification
• LC Methodologies
• Affinity
• Size exclusion
• Ion-exchange
• Unicorn control software

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GenePix Pro Microarray slide scanner

• Scanner for DNA microarray slides
• GenePix Pro software
• 2 Channel 532nm and 635nm laser
• Cy3/Cy5 dual channel scans
• Transcriptomics
• Acuity software

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Pharos Plus 2D gel scanner

• 2D scanner
• 3 lasers 488nm, 532nm and 635nm
• Quantity One software
• PD Quest software

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2D protein gels
Cy3/Cy5 DIGE (fluorescence)
35S SILAC (phosphorimage)
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Pharos Plus Scanning Options
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4000 QTRAP Hybrid Triple Quadrupole Mass
Spectrometer

• Nanoflow HPLC (1?l.min-1)
• ESI LC-MS-MS
• Proteomic application
• Peptide mass fingerprinting
• Search database library
• De novo peptide sequencing
• Post-translational modification analysis
• Cross-linking analysis (MS3D)
• MIDAS

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UFS-NBN Bioinformatics Node
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Bioinformatics Lecture Hall

• 26 Quadcore PCs
• Dual boot
• Windows XP
• Fedora Linux
• R (stats and graphs)
• Python
• Bioinformatics teaching
• Specialized workshops

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Dedicated Bioinformatics server

• Dual quadcore Xeon CPUs
• 1 Terra Byte RAID
• Linux 7 Enterprise
• Apache
• MySQL
• Python
• Dedicated bioinformatics databases
• Analysis packages
• Local Programs
• SSH Access from off-campus

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Contact

• Hugh Patterton
• X2274
• patterh.sci_at_ufs.ac.za