A List of the Major Items of Equipment within the Core
Select an application topic and the appropriate equipment will open. Whenever there is a 
next to the name of a given
piece of equipment, please click
on the thumbnail to view an image of the equipment as well as a summary
of it's potential uses.
| Biology Applications | ||
| Basic | Equipment covered in Training Class |
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| Support | ||
| DNA/RNA | ||
| Protein/Proteomics | ||
| DNA/RNA/Protein | ||
| Cell | ||
| Chromatography | ||
| Genomics | Software | |
| Imaging | ||
| Chemiluminescent Imaging | ||
| Fluorescent Imaging | ||
| Gel Documentation | ||
| Molecular Imaging | ||
| Image Quantitation/Analysis | ||
| Other Core Facilities Applications | ||
| Fermentation | Fermentation and Cell Breakage | |
| Kinetic Analysis | ||
| Biological Microcalorimetry | ||
| Surface Plasmon Resonance | ||
| Microscopy and Imaging | Microscopy | |
| Histology | ||
| Imaging | ||
| Neuroscience Institute | Histology | |
| Imaging | ||
| Modeling | ||
| Molecular Modeling | Computer based molecular modeling and molecular energy minimization methods are having a major impact on areas such as drug design, visualization of the structure of proteins and their complexes, and determination of molecular conformations | |
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Silicon Graphics servers and workstations |
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Beowulf clusters |
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a group of usually identical PC computers running a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Unix-like operating system, such as BSD, Linux or Solaris. It is highly essential to the definition that the OS be Unix-like, and be free and open source. They are networked into a small TCP/IP LAN, and have libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them. |
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Dual Processor Linux workstations |
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40 dual - 1.5GHz CPU, 2 quad-CPU head node beowolf cluster computer |
using Myranet interprocessor communication links supports multi-processor computations for molecular modeling that are implemented with the MPI-1 communications protocol, as well as batch parallel implementations of serial programs | |
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24 dual 933 MHz CPU beowolf cluster computer |
using gigabit ethernet interproccessor communication links uses the MOSIX modified linux kernel to support task migration and load balancing. | |
Software
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used for visualization of molecular structure and interactions, and for quantum chemical, molecular mechanics, and molecular dynamics calculations for research use. These methods are used for determination of the structure of complex RNA viral genomes, to evaluate the factors that control biological activity of pharmaceutical agents and those that control motions in biological molecules. | |
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Amber |
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"Amber" refers to two things: a set of molecular mechanical force fields for the simulation of biomolecules (which are in the public domain, and are used in a variety of simulation programs); and a package of molecular simulation programs which includes source code and demos. |
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Insight/Discover |
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Insight II is a sophisticated molecular modeling environment that provides a graphical interface to best-of-breed algorithms for molecular dynamics, homology modeling, de novo design, and electrostatics. |
Gaussian 98 w/ Gausssview |
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a very powerful electronic structure calculation package that now includes a broad spectrum of density functional methods. |
Spartan |
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Spartan is a tool for exploring organic, bioorganic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry by way of molecular mechanics and quantum chemical calculations, together with an array of graphical models for conveying the results of these calculations |
Sybyl |
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SYBYL® is a suite of computational informatics software designed to enhance the drug discovery workflows and decision-making of today's computational chemists and molecular modelers. |
| Spectrometric Analysis | ||
| Mass Spectrometry | ||
| NMR Spectrometry | ||
| Spectroscopy | ||
This information is given as a guide to the facilities and instrumentation available in the DNA/Protein Core facility at Georgia State University. If you have any concerns or thoughts about the content of this website please contact: John Houghton (404) 413-5390
