Applications

At the GDC we support a large spectrum of applications and are happy to help you find the best one for your project. The most common applications include:

• Sample processing (Lyophilizer Lyovac)
  A water removal process to perserve perishable materials
  
• DNA/RNA Extraction
  Multiple protocols and kits
  Automated purification solution (KingFisher Apex & Flex)
  
• DNA/RNA Quantification
  Electrophoresis (Agarose gel, Tapestation)
  Fluorometric quantitation (Qubit, Spark)
  UV-Absorption (Nanodrop, Spark)
• Liquid handling (Mosquito HV, BRAND)
  Pipetting robot for e.g. normalization and qPCR or NGS library prep, magnetic bead clean-up and quantification
  
• PCR, gradient PCR amplification (Sensoquest, Applied Biosystems)
  
• Fragment analysis
  SNP (TaqMan, HRM, KASP) (BioMark, 7500 Fast RT-PCR System, Lightcycler 480)
  Microsatellite Analysis (3730 DNA Analyzer, 3130xl DNA Analyzer)
  AFLP (3730 DNA Analyzer, 3130xl DNA Analyzer)
  T-RFLP (3730 DNA Analyzer, 3130xl DNA Analyzer)
  Cell Line Authentication (3730 DNA Analyzer, 3130xl DNA Analyzer)
  
• Sanger Sequencing (3730 DNA Analyzer, 3130xl DNA Analyzer)
  
• Next Generation Sequencing (MiSeq, NovaSeq, external page MinIon, Mosquito HV)
  DNA Sequencing
  mRNA Sequencing
  Amplicon Sequencing
  Metagenomics
  
• Genome size estimation (CyFlow)
  
• Ploidylevel estimation (CyFlow)
• Gene Expression Analysis (BioMark, 7500 Fast RT-PCR System, Lightcycler 480)
  TaqMan Probe
  SYBR Green / EvaGreen
  
• Pollen/Cell counting (Casy)