Proteomics
MALDI Spotting Capability For Nanoflow LC
May 16, 2007 12:56 pm | Product Releases | CommentsEksigent has announced the addition of a NanoLC MALDI Spotting System to its nanoflow chromatography product line. Featuring the new Ekspot spotter, the system complements the company’s existing offerings for nanospray mass spectrometry proteomics analysis.
Pathway, Molecular Interaction Analysis Software
April 17, 2007 12:23 pm | Product Releases | CommentsPathway Studio 5.0 software for pathway and molecular interaction analysis adds functionality for transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics data interpretation. Key changes include the addition of Signaling Line Pathways for enhanced microarray data analysis.
FTMS For Proteomic, Metabolomic Studies
April 17, 2007 12:23 pm | Product Releases | CommentsWith resolution of >500,000 and mass accuracy of <1 ppm, the 900-MS, an FT MS instrument, is used in proteomics and metabolomics analyses.
MALDI CID TOF MS
April 17, 2007 12:23 pm | Product Releases | CommentsThe AXIMA-TOF2 MALDI CID MS/MS (a TOF TOF mass spectrometer) includes intuitive software and XML data exporting as a standard features.
Fraction Collection For Capillary LC
April 17, 2007 12:23 pm | Product Releases | CommentsInduction Based Fluidics technology (IBF) is used to spot pico- to micro-size volumes of Liquid Chromatographic (LC) effluent into micro vials, micro-well plates or on MALDI targets while the ALIAS autosampler serves as the platform for the product.
High-Throughput Assay Miniaturization Workstation
March 19, 2007 12:38 pm | Product Releases | CommentsBioRAPTR FRD microfluidic workstation (Beckman Coulter, Inc., Fullerton, CA) is offered in multiple configurations, including as a standalone unit and integrated with Beckman Coulter’s PARADIGM Detection Platform, Biomek NX p liquid handler and BRT Robotic Transport.
Microplate Dispenser (9747)
February 13, 2007 10:36 am | Product Releases | CommentsNanoQuot Microplate Dispenser utilizes control software for intuitive and flexible dispense program creation and liquid profile management, making it easy to quickly change dispense solutions characterized by different viscosities. A .
Focus on Funding 12/29/06
December 29, 2006 5:53 am | Articles | CommentsListing of awarded and available funding
New Cancer Center Established in Nashville 12/19/06
December 19, 2006 7:27 am | Articles | CommentsSource: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
Aiming at Cancer
December 12, 2006 9:35 am | Articles | CommentsThe rate of cancer incidence continues to remain stable while the death rate from cancer continues to decline, states the 2005 Cancer Trends Progress Report Update, published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Heading off Lung Transplant Rejection 11/9/06
November 9, 2006 10:11 am | Articles | CommentsSource: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
How Salmonella Escapes Detection 10/23/06
October 23, 2006 6:39 am | Articles | CommentsSource: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash.
Breaking Through The Proteomic Bottleneck
October 10, 2006 11:40 am | Articles | CommentsOver 300 years ago, Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered the secrets of building compound microscopes, and biologists have been obsessed with the minuscule ever since. It's an understandable fascination; from Streptococcus to sarcoma to sickle-cell, the biggest breakthroughs come from making sense of the small.
Spin Column Digests Proteins
October 10, 2006 10:47 am | Articles | CommentsProteomics Grade Trypsin Spin Column reduces the amount of time required to digest complex protein mixtures from as much as 18 hours with conventional methods to only 15 minutes.
Mass Spectrometer (8883)
October 10, 2006 10:47 am | Articles | CommentsMass resolution and accuracy, sensitivity, analytical versatility and reliability have been enhanced in the new autoflex III smartbeam mass spectrometers for use in expression proteomics and quantitative proteomics, as well as in peptide/protein biomarker discovery, identification and validation.
Fluorescence Dyes
October 10, 2006 10:47 am | Articles | CommentsPromoFluor dyes span the wavelength spectrum from blue-green to far red. They provide photostability, strong absorption, high fluorescence quantum yield and water solubility. Dye intensity increases when coupled to biomolecules resulting in reduced influence of uncoupled dyes.
Improving Quantification Accuracy For Western Blots
September 20, 2006 7:45 am | Articles | CommentsImaging systems used for Western blot analysis are often described as 'quantitative'. While it is true that the instrumentation used to image the blots does acquire signal in a quantitative way, data produced by these systems can only be quantitative if the signal generated by the chemistry is proportional to the amount of sample on the blot in a linear fashion.
The Other Chips: Microfluidic Devices Come of Age
August 9, 2006 7:24 am | Articles | CommentsThe clock ticks forward one second. A technician pipets a sample from a crude cellular extract, processes it through a complex preparation protocol with multiple reagents, runs the processed extract on a gel, isolates the desired bands, and characterizes the activities of several novel enzymes.
Trypsin Spin Column, Proteomics Grade
August 9, 2006 6:59 am | Articles | CommentsProteomics-grade trypsin is prepared in a 15 minute digestion using the Trypsin Spin Column, Proteomics Grade. The ultra-micro spin column contains purified, TPCK-treated porcine trypsin immobilized on a spherical 20 micron silica support, chemically modified to minimize non-specific adsorption.
The Profiler: A New Approach to LC/MS Protein Characterization
July 17, 2006 10:28 am | Articles | CommentsSomewhere, deep within a complex cell extract sample, sit the potential biomarker proteins Dr. Pierre Thibault is hoping to profile and characterize. The barrier to finding them? Everything else in the sample.
Proteomics Software
July 17, 2006 7:49 am | Articles | CommentsProteus software now includes Automated Informatics, a technology framework that enables bioinformatics pipelining and analytics automation.
MALDI TOF-TOF MS
July 17, 2006 7:36 am | Articles | CommentsAXIMA-TOF 2 MALDI TOF-TOF mass spectrometer, a high-energy, collision induced dissociation (CID) MS/MS instrument, extends the type of analyses life science laboratories can provide. Intuitive software allows for use in open-access lab environments, requiring minimum user input.
Biomarker Analysis
May 10, 2006 6:59 am | Articles | CommentsCLINPROT FORUM supports customers in protein/peptide biomarker discovery and validation, as well as in clinical and applied proteomics.
Pathway Analysis Software
May 10, 2006 6:59 am | Articles | CommentsVersion 4.0 of PathwayStudio (formerly PathwayAssist, Ariadne Genomics, Inc.) contains new tools for microarray data analysis and pathway dynamics simulation, as well as over 1000 reconstructed pathways.
IEF System, Scanners, For Proteomics
May 10, 2006 6:59 am | Articles | CommentsIntegrated proteomics product line is offered for producing, imaging and analyzing 2D gels. IEF-SYS, a one-tank electrophoresis system, allows 2D gels to be run with both immobilized pH gradient strips and pre-cast acrylamide gels.
