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MultiNA

The Georgia Genomics Facility has one state-of-the-art MultiNA (Shimadzu), a microchip electrophoresis system for DNA/RNA analysis. The microchip electrophoresis system provides an alternative to agarose gel electrophoresis. Overall, it is cheaper, faster, more sensitive, and provides great analytical precision. The operations are handled automatically, including separation, buffer filling, sample loading, fluorescence electrophoresis detection, microchip washing, and data analysis.

MultiNA Specifications:

  • High-purity quartz chips with photolithography technologies SYBR Gold (DNA analysis and SYBR Green II (RNA analysis are used
  • 96 wells plate and one 12-well row (one of the well must be a control ladder; all others can be samples)
  • Requires only 3 ul per sample
  • Takes approximately 5 min per sample to complete the whole process (following 20 minute initiation)
  • Detects as little as 0.2 ng/ul
  • Separation size range: 25-2,500 bp.  The GGF currently uses the 100-2,500 bp control detection kit. However, other control kits are available upon request: DNA 25-500 bp and 100-1000 bp; RNA up to 28S rRNA.
  • User-friendly data processing. Sample sheets, electropherogram, and data sheets can be exported in CSV format and later used in Excel format. 

MultiNA Applications:

  • Single PCR products
  • Multiple PCR products
  • Restriction digests
  • Synthetic oligonucleotides (ex: primers)
  • Small Plasmids

The MultiNA can provide size analysis and quantitative analysis.

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