Laboratory Infrastructure





Protea’s Research Laboratory brings you access to the most advanced and cutting-edge bioanalytical technologies.

 Instrumentation:

Mass Spectrometers And HPLCs:
  • LAESI DP-1000 Direct Ionization Systems
  • Waters Synapt® G2-S HDMS w/ Ion Mobility
  • Waters Acquity UPLC®
  • Thermo Scientific LTQ Velos™ Linear Ion Trap MS
  • 2 x Thermo Scientific Q Exactive™ Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer
  • 2 X AB SCIEX 5500 QTRAPs
  • Shimadzu HPLC
  • Bruker ultrafleXtreme™ MALDI TOF/TOF
  • Agilent 6530 QTOF
  • Agilent 1290 UHPLC
  • Agilent 1260 capillary/nanoflow HPLC

Electrical Backup:
  • UPS units on all instruments and computers
  • Natural gas generator with automatic start-up in case of power loss

Sample Storage:
  • Thermo Scientific Revco -80°C
  • Thermo Scientific Revco 4°C
  • Thermo Scientific Revco -20°C
  • All units are monitored 24 hours a day/7 days a week.

Histology Lab:
  • Thermo Cryotome
  • Microtome
  • Olympus Slide Scanner
  • Biosafety Cabiney
  • CO2 Incubator

 Software:

Molecular Quantitation:
  • AB SCIEX Analyst
  • Waters MassLynx™
  • MultiQuant™
  • MRM Pilot™

Biomolecular Imaging:
  • ProteaPlot™
  • TissueView™
  • SCiLS Lab

Metabolite Identification:
  • LightSight™
  • Waters MetaboLynx™ XS
  • Agilent Metlin
  • Mass Frontier

Bioinformatic Tools:
  • ProteinPilot™
  • Proteome Discoverer
  • MASCOT
  • Scaffold
  • Pepfinder
  • Skyline
  • ProteinMetrics Suite
    • Byonic
    • Byologic
  • Agilent Suite
    • MPP
    • Pathway Analysis
    • Bioconfirm
  • Ingenuity Pathway Analysis
  • Prosight
  • Tracefinder
  • Compound Discoverer
  • Protein Deconvolution

…concepts into knowledge