The Wistar Institute :: Genomics Facility

•	Gene Expression and Regulation
•	Immunology
•	Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis
	•	Cancer Biology Division
	•	Systems Biology Division

Genomics/Microarray Facility

Instrumentation

Instruments	Description
ABI 3100	Capillary fluorescent sequencer
ABI 377	Capillary fluorescent sequencer
Packard GSI Lumonics ScanArray 4000	MicroArray Analysis System
Packard Cyclone	Phosphor Storage Screen Scanner
BioRobotics Microgrid II TAS	Arrayer w/ humidification and rearraying capabilities
Affymetrix GMS 417	Pin in Ring Array System
Beckman BioMek 2000	Liquid Handler/Lab Automation system
MWG Biotech Primus HT	4 Block Thermocycler w/ Associated Server
Perkin Elmer GeneAmp 9700	Thermocycler
Molecular Dynamics Storm Phosphorimager 820	Image acquisition from storage phosphor screens capable of 50 um resolution
Roche Lightcycler	Real-time PCR machine
Labnet Problot12	Hybridization oven (x3)

Software	Description
Packard Optiquant	Image Analysis for Phosphorimager
Molecular Dynamics Imagequant 5	Image Analysis associated with Storm Phosphorimager
Biodiscovery Suite:	Total Array Analysis Software
Imagene 6.1	Image Analysis and data acquisition for fluorescent and radioactive microarray
Molecular Imaging Arrayvision 5.1	First Generation image analysis and data collection software for array.
Packard QuantArray	Similar to ImageQuant quantification of Image Data
Packard ScanArray	Dual Channel Fluorescence Image acquisition.
Roche Lightcycler Probe Design	Primer design software