Biologists
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Specialty plates for bacteria (Agar plates)
- Automated microscope stages (Automated microscopes)
- Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Automatic pipetters)
- Benchtop centrifuges
- Freezedryers or lyophilzers (Benchtop lyophilizers)
- Tissue culture incubators (Bioreactors)
- HEPA filtered enclosures (Biosafety cabinets)
- Gas burners (Bunsen burners)
- Tube furnaces (Carbolite ovens)
- Vacuum or centrifugal concentrators (Centrifugal evaporators)
- Conductivity meters
- Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers (Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers)
- Desktop computers
- Digestion systems (Digestion units)
- Digital cameras
- Commercial fishing nets (Dip nets)
- Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Dissecting microscopes)
- Bi distillation units (Distillation units)
- Electron microscopes
- Laboratory balances (Electronic precision balances)
- Gel boxes (Electrophoresis chambers)
- Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flasks)
- Standard fermentation units (Fermenters)
- Liquid scintillation counters (Fluid scintillation counters)
- Fluorescent microscopes (Fluorescence microscopes)
- French pressure cells (French presses)
- Fume hoods or cupboards (Fume hoods)
- Chemical or gas sterilizers (Gas autoclaves)
- Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
- Multipurpose or general test tubes (General purpose laboratory test tubes)
- Laboratory beakers (Glass beakers)
- Laboratory burets (Glass burets)
- Laboratory graduated cylinders (Glass graduated cylinders)
- Laboratory washing machines (Glass washers)
- Global positioning system receivers (Global positioning system GPS devices)
- Handheld thermometer (Handheld digital thermometers)
- Magnetic stirrers (Heated magnetic stirrers)
- Stirring hotplates (Heated stir plates)
- High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
- Homogenizers
- Microbiology inoculation loops or needles (Inoculating loops)
- Inverted microscopes (Inverted compound microscopes)
- Analytical balances (Laboratory analytical balances)
- Sampling syringes (Laboratory bulb syringes)
- Dropping pipettes (Laboratory dropping pipettes)
- Laboratory forceps
- Laboratory funnels
- Laboratory hotplates (Laboratory hot plates)
- Laboratory microwave ovens
- Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow cabinets)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Liquid handling robots)
- Photometers (Luminometers)
- Mainframe computers
- Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Mechanical laboratory incubators)
- Barometers (Mercury barometers)
- Dropping pipettes (Micropipettes)
- Photo attachments for microscopes (Microscope digital cameras)
- Microscope slides
- Microplate readers (Microtiter plate readers)
- Microtomes
- Microplates (Multiwell microplates)
- Direction finding compasses (Navigational compasses)
- Binocular light compound microscopes (Optical compound microscopes)
- Orbital shaking water baths
- Pasteur or transfer pipettes (Pasteur pipettes)
- Personal computers
- Petri plates or dishes (Petri dishes)
- pH meters (pH indicators)
- Radiation detectors (Phosporimagers)
- Commercial fishing nets (Plankton nets)
- Cuvettes (Plastic cuvettes)
- Laboratory general purpose tubing (Plastic laboratory tubing)
- Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
- Portable data input terminals (Portable dataloggers)
- Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers (Propane jet freezers)
- Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
- Dissolved carbon dioxide analyzers (Respirometers)
- Safety glasses
- Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
- Goggles (Safety goggles)
- Salinity meter (Salinity meters)
- Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
- Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Scanning laser confocal microscopes)
- Calculators or accessories (Scientific calculators)
- Shaking incubators
- Ultrasonic disintegrators (Sonicators)
- Specimen collectors (Specimen collection containers)
- Spectrophotometers
- Laboratory stirring rods (Spreading rods)
- Benchtop centrifuges (Swinging bucket centrifuges)
- Vortex mixers (Test tube shakers)
- Tissue culture coated plates or dishes or inserts (Tissue culture plates)
- Electronic toploading balances (Top-loading electronic balances)
- Transmission electron microscopes (Transmission electron microscopes TEM)
- Triple beam balances
- Ultracentrifuges
- Microtomes (Ultramicrotomes)
- Transilluminators (Ultraviolet UV transilluminators)
- Spectrophotometers (Ultraviolet UV visible spectrophotometers)
- Ultra violet water purification units (Ultraviolet water purification systems)
- Dehydrators (Vacuum dehydration units)
- Laboratory evaporators (Vacuum evaporators)
- Drying cabinets or ovens (Vertical drying ovens)
- Digital camcorders or video cameras (Video imaging systems)
- Video attachments for microscopes (Video microscopes)
- Open stream current meters (Water flow gauges)
- Water samplers
- Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Water-jacketed CO2 incubators)
- Weather stations
- Spectrometers (X ray spectrometers)
- Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Zoom microscopes)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Agilent Technologies GeneSpring GX
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- BioKin PlateKi
- BLAT
- Blue Tractor Software DNADynamo
- Cubic
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequence analysis software
- EMBOSS
- EnzymeX
- Excavator
- FASTA
- FoldX
- Gene Codes Sequencher
- Ingenuity Systems Ingenuity Pathways Analysis
- JaMBW
- Joint Prediction of Operons JPOP
- MacVector
- Meyer Instruments Optimas
- NAMD
- Partek Incorporated Partek Genomics Suite
- Phrap
- Phred
- Protein Explorer
- RepeatMasker
- SequentiX TreeMe
- sim4
- SoftZymics VisualEnzymics
- SPSS software
- SURFDriver Software WinSURF
- Textco BioSoftware Gene Inspector
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- The MathWorks SimBiology
- VayTek VoxBlast
- Visual Molecular Dynamics VMD
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Development environment software
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop software
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Object or component oriented development software
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Sun Microsystems Java
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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