Equipment & Materials Catalog

50 equipment types, 20 products · 81 material types, 203 products

Material Types

Name	Category	Products	Description
Bacterial strain	Biological material	3	Defined bacterial genotype (host strain) used for cloning, heterologous protein expression, or reagent production.
Expression plasmid	Biological material	6	DNA vector carrying a gene of interest under a regulated promoter, used for heterologous protein expression in a bacterial host.
Acetic acid	Chemical	0
Antibiotic	Chemical	4	Antimicrobial compound, typically used in molecular biology as a selection marker to maintain plasmid-carrying cells in culture.
Chloroform	Chemical	0	Organic solvent used in phenol:chloroform and chloroform:isoamyl-alcohol phase separations to partition proteins/lipids into the organic phase while DNA/RNA stays in the aqueous phase. Requires fume-hood handling (equipment type #16).
CTAB	Chemical	0	Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide — cationic detergent used in CTAB-buffer DNA extraction from plant and fungal tissues. Precipitates polysaccharides and denatures proteins while keeping nucleic acids in solution under high-salt conditions.
DTT	Chemical	0	Dithiothreitol — reducing agent used in lysis buffers and enzymatic reactions. Free-standing bench stock; distinct from the PacBio-kit-component DTT product (material_products id 67, type_id=34 Buffer) which ships as a component of the SMRTbell Express Template Prep Kit.
EDTA	Chemical	0
Ethanol	Chemical	0
Inducer	Chemical	3	Compound that triggers expression from a regulated promoter (e.g. IPTG for lac-family, aTC for tet-family, arabinose for araBAD).
Isopropanol	Chemical	0
Liquid nitrogen	Chemical	0	Cryogen used for flash-freezing tissue samples and for cryo-grinding (mortar-and-pestle pulverisation of plant / fungal / dried-insect material to a fine powder while avoiding DNA shearing). Physically a cryogenic liquid rather than a reactive chemical, but categorised Chemical for consistency with other bulk bench stocks (Ethanol #2, Isopropanol #3, EDTA #12, Tris-HCl #13, NaCl #14, SDS #15).
NaCl	Chemical	0
SDS	Chemical	0
Tap water	Chemical	0
TE buffer	Chemical	0	10 mM Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 1 mM EDTA — standard DNA storage and resuspension buffer. Free-standing bench stock; distinct from kit-specific TE products such as Agilent "Dilution Buffer 1X TE" (material_products id 103) and "0.25x TE Rinse Buffer" (id 90), which are filed under type_id=34 Buffer.
Tris-HCl	Chemical	0
β-mercaptoethanol	Chemical	0	Also 2-mercaptoethanol or BME. Reducing agent that cleaves disulfide bonds in proteins during lysis; commonly added to CTAB extraction buffer at 0.2–1% (v/v) to inactivate DNases and denature chaperones on DNA.
Bead lysis tube	Consumable	1	Pre-filled bead beating tubes for mechanical lysis
Conical tube (15 mL)	Consumable	0	Polypropylene conical-bottom tube, Falcon-style, 15 mL nominal capacity with screw cap. Used for bulk-scale reagent aliquoting and for samples that exceed microcentrifuge-tube volumes. Distinct from microcentrifuge tubes (#4 at 1.5 mL, #5 at 0.2 mL).
Conical tube (50 mL)	Consumable	0	Polypropylene conical-bottom tube, Falcon-style, 50 mL nominal capacity with screw cap. Used for bulk-scale reagent preparation and for large-volume tissue-lysis or extraction steps.
Culture container	Consumable	0
Desiccant	Consumable	2	Hygroscopic material used to maintain dry storage conditions for moisture-sensitive reagents or cellular preparations.
Filter pipette tips	Consumable	0	Aerosol-barrier pipette tips for pre-PCR and template-handling workflows. Polyethylene filter element inside the tip prevents carry-over contamination from the pipette shaft. Distinct from generic "Pipette tips" (#8, unfiltered) and from "Filter/Column" (#42, spin-filter purification columns) and "Miracloth / filter cloth" (#60, fabric filters).
Filter/Column	Consumable	7	Spin filters and purification columns
Lab spatula	Consumable	0
Medicine cup	Consumable	0
Microcentrifuge tube	Consumable	4	Includes 0.2 mL, 0.5 mL, 1.5 mL, and 2.0 mL sizes. Specify size in protocol notes.
Miracloth / filter cloth	Consumable	0
Paintbrush	Consumable	0
PCR plate (96-well)	Consumable	0
PCR tube strip	Consumable	1	Connected strip of small-volume tubes (typically 0.2 mL) for parallel thermal cycling. Distinct from standalone microcentrifuge tubes.
Pipette tips	Consumable	1
Spin column	Consumable	2	Silica membrane column used with centrifugation for nucleic acid binding, washing, and elution
DNA ligase	Enzyme	2
DNA polymerase	Enzyme	1
DNase I	Enzyme	1
Proteinase K	Enzyme	0
Restriction enzyme	Enzyme	0
Reverse transcriptase	Enzyme	2
RNase A	Enzyme	0
Bisulfite conversion kit	Kit	2
DNA extraction kit	Kit	3
Library preparation kit	Kit	5
RNA extraction kit	Kit	2
Sequencing kit	Kit	6
Primer (custom)	Primer	2
Adapter	Reagent	0
Agarose	Reagent	0
Barcode/Index	Reagent	1
Binding buffer	Reagent	1	Buffers for nucleic acid binding to columns or beads
Bisulfite conversion reagent	Reagent	1	Chemical reagent that deaminates unmethylated cytosines to uracil via bisulfite treatment, enabling methylation analysis by sequencing
Buffer	Reagent	45	Aqueous solution formulated to maintain pH, ionic strength, or other conditions during biochemical procedures
Capillary electrophoresis intercalator	Reagent	2	Instrument-specific intercalating dye used inside capillary electrophoresis systems such as the Agilent Fragment Analyzer, TapeStation, or Bioanalyzer. Not a gel stain and not a sample-loading dye.
Capillary electrophoresis kit	Reagent	4	Separation and analysis kits for capillary electrophoresis instruments
Chelating resin	Reagent	0	Metal-ion-binding ion-exchange resin (e.g. Bio-Rad Chelex-100; styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer with iminodiacetic acid functional groups). Used in simple cell-lysis protocols to chelate divalent cations required by nucleases, protecting released DNA during 95 °C lysis. Semantically distinct from Lysis solution (#38) — a resin is a solid bead suspended in water, not a pre-formulated solution. Replaces the #38 workaround used in early pilot protocols.
Digestion buffer	Reagent	2	Buffers for enzymatic digestion reactions
DNA ladder	Reagent	10
DNA/RNA stabilizer	Reagent	1	Stabilization reagents for nucleic acid preservation
dNTP mix	Reagent	2
Elution buffer	Reagent	4	Buffers for eluting nucleic acids from columns
Enzyme mix	Reagent	8	Multi-enzyme preparations for molecular biology workflows
Fluorometric assay kit	Reagent	4	Fluorescence-based quantitation assay kits
Growth media	Reagent	5	Liquid or solid nutrient preparation for microbial culture; formulation determines growth rate, yield, and downstream protein quality.
Honey	Reagent	0
Insect culture medium	Reagent	0
Library prep reagent	Reagent	7	Individual reagents used in library preparation workflows
Ligation reagent	Reagent	5	Reagents for adapter or barcode ligation
Loading dye	Reagent	0
Lysis solution	Reagent	4	Cell lysis reagents for nucleic acid extraction
Magnetic beads (SPRI)	Reagent	4
Nuclease-free water	Reagent	4
Nucleic acid stain	Reagent	1	In-gel DNA/RNA stain for visualising nucleic acids in agarose or polyacrylamide gels (e.g. SYBR Safe, GelRed, ethidium bromide).
PCR master mix	Reagent	1
pH indicator	Reagent	3	Colour-changing compound reporting reaction pH — used in colorimetric LAMP readouts, buffer-formulation QC, and related assays where a visible pH shift signals reaction progress. Distinct from nucleic-acid stains (which bind DNA) and intercalators (which insert into the DNA duplex) — pH indicators respond only to hydrogen-ion concentration.
Polymerase binding reagent	Reagent	1	Reagents for polymerase-template binding in sequencing
Prep solution	Reagent	2	Preparation solutions for sample processing
Protein MW ladder	Reagent	3	Molecular weight standard for SDS-PAGE and related protein electrophoresis — defined band set spanning a protein-size range, used to calibrate band migration against expected molecular weight. Distinct from DNA molecular weight standards (different reagent class).
Sequencing adapter	Reagent	7	Adapter molecules for sequencing library preparation
Sequencing primer	Reagent	1	Primers for initiating sequencing reactions
Wash buffer	Reagent	10	Wash buffers for column-based purification