Technical literature

These application/technical notes are intended to help you to evaluate our products within a familiar context.

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Hardware

• 1 Cooled CCD Camera Technology Terminology
• 4 Digitisation and Data Dynamic Range
• 9 Glossary of CCD Terminology
• 12 Pixel Binning - Improved Sensitivity?
• 17 On Chip Integration versus Image Additions in Series Capture
• 19 Using the UV safety over-ride facility
• 31 Recommended environment for Syngene Image Capture Systems
• 36 Illumination options available on Syngene image capture systems
• 44 What is a 16-bit CCD camera?
• 63 Analog Devices

Imaging

• 2 Blue Converter Screen For Molecular and Cellular Biology Applications
• 3 Chemiluminescence vs Chemifluorescence
• 5 Epi-illumination versus Transillumination
• 6 Visualising Green Fluorescent Protein
• 8 Neutral Fielding - for Syngene Image Capture Systems
• 14 Multiplexing Gel Samples
• 15 Colourimetric markers 
• 21 Visualising SYBR dyes using a Syngene image capture system
• 28 Imaging Chemiluminescent blots 
• 35 G:BOX Chemi HR16 & XT16 for imaging ribonuclease protection assays
• 37 Imaging Sypro™ Ruby and Deep Purple™ stained gels with G:BOX Chemi HR16 & XT16
• 39 NovaGlo Conversion Screen
• 41 Dyversity and Typhoon 9400 imaging of Cy™ dye 1D and 2D gels
• 42 G:BOX Chemi for rapid multiplex analysis
• 47 Cy2, Cy3, Cy5 1D gel imaging using Cy dye lighting unit and epi RGB LED module
• 48 Imaging Ethidium bromide dye
• 49 Imaging Alexa Fluor 647 dye
• 50 Imaging Quantum dot (Q-dot 565 and 705) nanocrystals
• 51 Imaging SYBR Safe gel stain
• 52 Imaging SafeView
• 53 Imaging Cyanine 3
• 54 Detecting proteins in picogram and femtogram range with G:BOX iChemi image analyzer and KPL chemiluminescent substrates
• 55 G:BOX iChemi DyLight conjugates for imaging fluorescent western blots - optimum lighting and filter combinations for maximum sensitivity
• 56 Imaging protein gels using GeneSnap software
• 59 Multiplexing LI-COR® IRDye® 680LT and IRDye® 800CW dyes
• 60 Chemiluminescent western blot imaging using ChemiFast substrate
• 61 Quantitative imaging of chemiluminescent western blots
• 62 Multiplexing DyLight Infra red 680 and 800 dyes

Software

• 7 Colony and cell counting using GeneTools software
• 11 File Formats that can be used and saved in GeneSnap and GeneTools
• 13 Multi-Layered Gel Analysis - For High Throughput Screening
• 16 GeneTools MADGE - a New Tool for High Throughput Screening
• 18 How to use Data from GeneTools
• 20 What is Background Subtraction?
• 22 Aligning banks of tracks in GeneTools for high throughput gels and E-Gels
• 23 How to Enhance your Image in GeneSnap  
• 26 GeneTools - the essential software for accurate DNA/RNA or protein gel and blot analysis
• 29 How to Perform Internal Calibration with GeneTools
• 30 GeneDirectory- A new tool for genetic fingerprint analysis
• 57 Quantifying expression standards and expression values using GeneTools software