Facility

The Chen lab contains standard equipment for molecular biology and biochemistry, as well as a cell culture room of approximately 344 sq. ft. with two vertical flow hoods, two CO2 incubators, two inverted microscopes, water baths, centrifuges and refrigerator/freezers that are totally dedicated for tissue culture work.

The major equipment in the laboartory:


(1) Agilent Microarray Scanner G2505B
Agilent Microarray Scanner contains 1:1 PMT Adjustment capability, automatic Laser Power Control to eliminate laser drift and the Dynamic Autofocus. The scanner contains Agilent’s Feature Extraction software package that offers the combined analysis algorithms plus built-in error models.





(2) Stratagene Mx-3000 Real-time PCR System
STRATAGENE Real-time PCR System allows detection of most commercially available dyes including FAM, SYBR® Green I, TET, HEX™, JOE™, VIC™, TAMRA™, TexasRed®, ROX™, Cy5™, Cy3™ and ALEXA Fluor® 350. The system supports 96-well plate format and can perform multiple sub-experiments up to four dyes in the same well.




(3) Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer
Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer system allows automatically sizing and quantifying RNAs, DNAs and proteins.



Our lab is affiliated with the Clemson University Genome Institute (CUGI) and has access to the CUGI Bioinformatics Center. The computing equipment includes:

1. Two SunFire V440 quad processor servers with 8GB RAM each for computational software and Oracle databases.

2. Two SunFire V210 dual processor servers with 2 Gigabytes (GB) RAM each for systems management and web servers.

3. SUN Enterprise 450 with quad processors and 4 GB RAM for computation.

4. A 32 node, 64 processor Linux cluster with 32 GB RAM for computation.

5. A 32 node 64 processor Apple XServe cluster with 64 GB RAM for computation.

6. A small 10 node Dell cluster, and a small 10 node SunBlade cluster.


In addition we have access to a 512 processor computational grid owned by the University. We have three SUN A1000 disk arrays containing 600GB of usable storage, and two Apple XServe RAIDs with approximately 10 TeraBytes (TB) of usable space. The bioinformatics center also has collection of approximately 40 workstations running Windows XP, OS X, and Solaris sparc/x86 distributed throughout CUGI and connected to our bioinformatics computing infrastructure.

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