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Equipment
The PolyPlex 2 Oligonucleotide synthesizer is a fast, high throughput instrument capable of making 96 oligo’s (DNA or RNA) simultaneously. With a cycle time of 10 minutes, a plate of 25-mers (for example) is ready in about 4 hours.
Below: A typical example of the high DNA oligomer quality as analyzed by electospray mass spectrometry. 
The OmniGrid
100 Microarrayer uses a 48-pin capable printhead and Telechem
Stealth contact printing pins. Up to 100 slides can be
printed with biological samples in one production batch. The
integral Server Arm 3 robot automatically handles up to 72
plates (96 and 384 plates are most common) in a humidity controlled
chamber.
Below: An example of the AMF 18K Human Oligo Chip. This chip is also used in breast cancer research at the Beauséjour Medical Research Institute (BMRI).
Below: Our Axon Instruments GenePix 4000B microarray scanner achieves 5 μm resolution from two lasers at 532nm and 635nm wavelengths.
Below: The Precision 2000 liquid handling robot for 96-96, 96-384 and 384-384 transfers. Used in the preparation of print source 384-plates for microarray printing.
Other Equipment at the Atlantic Microarray Facility, Beauséjour Medical Research Institute
BIOINFORMATICS Here is a list of the software and databases that we have found to be useful to date: Software RefSeq is used for sequence design and sequence identities for
the AMF Human Oligo 15K chip
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