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19-1029.02 — Molecular and Cellular Biologists

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Technology Skills
Analytical or scientific software
  • AcaClone pDRAW32
  • Agilent CGH Analytics
  • Agilent Technologies GeneSpring GX
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • Blast Output Browser BOB
  • ClustalW
  • CRI-MAP
  • Delila
  • EnzymeX
  • FASTA
  • FASTLINK
  • Gene Recognition and Assembly Internet Link GRAIL
  • Genotyping software
  • Geospiza GeneSifter
  • GraphPad Software GraphPad Prism
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS
  • Magma Design Automation software
  • Mendel
  • Michigan State University MSU ProFlex
  • Minitab
  • NetPrimer
  • PHYLIP
  • Primer3
  • RasMol
  • Textco BioSoftware Gene Inspector
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
  • Wolfram Research Mathematica
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Mathsoft Mathcad
Data base user interface and query software
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA libraries
  • Microsoft Access
Data mining software
File versioning software
  • Git
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
  • Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Object or component oriented development software
  • C++
  • Python
  • R
Office suite software
  • Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
  • Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word
Tools Used
Automated microscope stages
  • Automated microscopes
Benchtop centrifuges
  • Tabletop centrifuges
Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Laboratory binocular optical microscopes
Centrifuge tubes
Chemical or gas sterilizers
  • Laboratory chemical autoclaves
Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid cDNA synthesis kits
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA synthesizers
Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers
  • Automated DNA sequencing equipment
Desktop computers
Dry baths or heating blocks
  • Heat blocks
Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators
  • Automatic carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
Electron guns
  • Phosphorimagers
Electronic multichannel pipetters
  • Multichannel micropipettes
Electrophoresis system accessories
  • Electrophoresis cameras
Eyewashers or eye wash stations
  • Emergency eye wash stations
Floor centrifuges
  • Laboratory floor centrifuges
Fluorescent microscopes
  • Fluorescence microscopes
Fume hoods or cupboards
  • Chemical hoods
Gas chromatographs
  • Gas chromatography equipment
Gel documentation systems
  • Gel electrophoresis equipment
General cloning vectors
  • Cloning kits
General purpose refrigerators or refrigerator freezers
  • Laboratory freezers
Heating or drying equipment or accessories
  • Dessicators
High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
Hybridization ovens or incubators
  • Nucleic acid hybridization ovens
Immunology or serology test kits or supplies
  • Serological kits
Inverted microscopes
  • Inverted binocular microscopes
Laboratory balances
  • Microbalances
Laboratory beakers
  • Glass beakers
Laboratory dishes
  • Cloning cylinders
Laboratory vacuum pumps
Laminar flow cabinets or stations
  • Laminar flow hoods
Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters
  • Automated cell counters
Manual single channel positive displacement pipetters
  • Manual single channel positive displacement pipettes
Manual single channel repeating pipetters
Mass spectrometers
Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
  • Computerized axial tomography CAT scanners
Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
  • Magnetic resonance imaging MRI systems
Microbiology analyzers
  • Flow cytometers
Microcentrifuges
Microplate readers
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
Orbital shakers
  • Laboratory orbital shakers
Pasteur or transfer pipettes
  • Laboratory transfer pipettes
Personal computers
pH meters
  • pH analyzers
Photo attachments for microscopes
  • Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
Plate incubators
  • Bacterial plate incubators
Protective gloves
  • Safety gloves
Rapid amplification or complementary deoxyribonucleic acid ends RACE technology products
  • Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment
Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
  • Cooled benchtop centrifuges
Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
  • Robotic fluidics stations
Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes
  • Scanning laser confocal microscopes
Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
  • Fluorimeters
Spectrophotometers
  • Ultraviolet-Visible UV/VIS spectrophotometers
Stereo or dissecting light microscopes
  • Dissecting microscopes
Stirring hotplates
  • Magnetic stirring hot plates
Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
  • Gradiant thermocyclers
  • Polymerase chain reaction PCR thermocyclers
  • Thermocyclers
Tissue culture incubators
  • Yeast culture incubators
Transilluminators
  • Gel imaging apparatus
Ultra pure water systems
  • Water purification systems
Volumetric pipettes
  • Variable volume pipettes
Vortex mixers
  • Vortex rotators
Water baths
  • Laboratory water baths
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