Equipment & Materials Catalog
50 equipment types, 20 products · 81 material types, 203 products
Equipment Types
| Name | Category | Products | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balance / analytical scale | — | 0 | |
| Bead beater / homogeniser | — | 0 | |
| Dissection tools | — | 0 | |
| Gel imager / UV transilluminator | — | 0 | |
| Growth chamber / environmental chamber | — | 0 | |
| Lab spatula (equipment) | — | 0 | |
| Microwave | — | 0 | |
| MinKNOW (ONT sequencing software) | — | 0 | |
| Mortar and pestle | — | 0 | |
| NanoDrop software | — | 0 | |
| Power supply (electrophoresis) | — | 0 | |
| ProSize data analysis software | — | 0 | |
| SMRT Link (PacBio software) | — | 0 | |
| Syringe (large volume) | — | 0 | |
| Thermomixer | — | 0 | |
| Benchtop centrifuge | Centrifugation | 0 | |
| Microcentrifuge | Centrifugation | 0 | |
| Gel electrophoresis system | Electrophoresis | 0 | |
| Filter apparatus | Liquid handling | 3 | Reusable housing, base, and funnel assembly holding a filter membrane during vacuum filtration. Distinct from the membrane itself — the apparatus is reused across runs; the membrane is replaced each time. Some formats (e.g. Sterivex cartridges) integrate the membrane and are disposable. |
| Micropipette | Liquid handling | 5 | |
| Multichannel pipette | Liquid handling | 0 | |
| Plastic transfer pipette (disposable) | Liquid handling | 0 | Pasteur-style one-piece disposable plastic pipette (~3 mL bulb, non-calibrated graduations). Accepts approximate-volume transfers where a micropipette is unavailable — typical in audience-grade or field protocols. |
| Vacuum pump | Liquid handling | 3 | Motor-driven pump creating negative pressure for vacuum filtration, buffer degassing, solid-phase extraction, and related workflows. Used with a filter apparatus for eDNA sampling, sterile filtration, and bacterial-culture processing. |
| Magnetic rack | Magnetic separation | 3 | Neodymium-magnet fixture for separating paramagnetic beads from solution — used for SPRI-bead purification, mRNA capture, immunoprecipitation, and related workflows. Available in PCR-strip, 1.5 mL tube, and 96-well plate formats. |
| Digital thermometer (probe) | Measurement | 0 | Food-grade penetrating thermometer with metal probe and digital readout (typical range −50 to 300 °C, ±1 °C). Used to verify water-bath or kettle temperature in kitchen settings where a calibrated lab instrument is unavailable. |
| Fluorometer | Measurement | 1 | |
| Fragment analyzer | Measurement | 1 | |
| pH meter | Measurement | 0 | Benchtop or handheld electrode-based pH measurement instrument. Used to confirm buffer pH during reagent preparation (e.g. TE buffer pH 8.0, extraction-buffer pH adjustments). |
| Spectrophotometer | Measurement | 1 | |
| Magnetic stirrer | Mixing | 0 | Magnetic stir-bar mixing platform, typically integrated with a hotplate. Used for dissolving bulk reagents and sustained homogeneous mixing during buffer preparation — distinct from short-burst vortex mixing (type #6) and rotator mixing (type #7). |
| Orbital shaker | Mixing | 0 | |
| Rotator mixer | Mixing | 0 | |
| Vortex mixer | Mixing | 0 | |
| Biosafety cabinet | Safety | 0 | |
| Fume hood | Safety | 0 | |
| Vacuum concentrator | Sample processing | 0 | |
| Illumina sequencer | Sequencing | 0 | |
| Nanopore sequencer | Sequencing | 3 | |
| PacBio sequencer | Sequencing | 0 | |
| Desiccator jar | Storage | 0 | Sealable chamber maintaining low-humidity conditions for moisture-sensitive materials such as lyophilised cellular reagents. |
| Freezer (−20 °C) | Storage | 0 | |
| Freezer (−80 °C) | Storage | 0 | |
| Refrigerator (4 °C) | Storage | 0 | |
| Benchtop incubator | Thermal regulation | 0 | Static temperature-controlled chamber for microbial culture, plate incubation, or thermally-gated reactions. |
| Heat block | Thermal regulation | 0 | |
| Kitchen kettle | Thermal regulation | 0 | Electric or stovetop kettle for boiling water. One-shot heating to ~100 °C; not temperature-regulated (category is nominal — kettle is the kitchen-grade substitute for a heat block at the 95 °C denaturation step of simple Chelex-style extractions). |
| Shaking incubator | Thermal regulation | 0 | Temperature-controlled chamber with orbital shaking for aerobic microbial culture. |
| Sous-vide immersion circulator | Thermal regulation | 0 | Kitchen-grade temperature-controlled water bath — clip-on immersion heater with integrated pump and digital set-point (typical range 0–95 °C, ±0.5 °C). Used in audience-grade extraction protocols as a stable incubation source for the 56 °C step where a lab water bath is unavailable. |
| Thermal cycler | Thermal regulation | 0 | |
| Water bath | Thermal regulation | 0 |