GBL Facilities

The GBL is equipped to perform genomics research using molecular biology and genetics approaches. We routinely perform high throughput fragment size analysis (microsatellite loci genotyping) and DNA sequencing analysis.

The laboratory equipment includes an ABI PRISM 377 DNA Sequencer (PE Applied Biosystems, CA) upgraded to process 96 samples per run, four Gene Amp PCR System 9700 thermal cyclers (PE Applied Biosystems, CA), a Hydra-96 Micro-dispenser (Robins Scientific, CA), Precision water bath incubators, Power PAC-300 gel electrophoresis apparatus (Bio-Rad Laboratories, CA), Jouan tabletop refrigerated centrifuges, Jouan tabletop micro-centrifuges, -20ºC and -80ºC freezers, and a large chromatography refrigerator. In the Department of Dairy and Animal Science, we also have access to shared equipment such as an Eagle Eye II UV trans-illuminator camera system, Beckman Spectrophotometer, and an Ultra Pure Supper-Q Water System.

For data capture, management and data analyses, the GBL laboratory is equipped with a Unix Ultra-60 workstation with 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM memory and 36 GB hard disk space, three PC-DELL NT workstations, and two G4 Power Macintosh computers. Specific higher computational tasks and data backup-retrieval is channeled through the Center for Academic Computing (CAC) at Penn State University. In the CAC, we have access to i) an IBM RS/6000 SP computer with 300 CPU; ii) a Linux super-cluster with 64 CPU and 32 GB memory; and ii) Sun Solaris Unix servers.

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