We have a laboratory with standard equipment for preparative organic chemistry. With the recent
acquisition of
Expedite 8909 oligonucleotide synthesizer
© Kovács Lajos, 1999-
(see picture), a BUV DNA Peltier Melt Kit for PE Lambda 10 UV spectrophotometer, two
Shimadzu LC-10 HPLC instruments, one with autoinjector
SIL-10AD VP
and UV/VIS detector SPD-10AV VP, one Agilent HPLC instrument, an OPLC-50 instrument, three fraction collectors (an ISCO Foxy Jr.
and two purpose-built MX-101 models)
all being supported by international and national funds, vastly improved possibilities are foreseen. In addition, we have access
to the following instruments of the Department:
Nicolet Impact 410 IR spectrophotometer, Biofocus 3000 capillary electrophoresis instrument,
Finnigan TSQ 7000 electrospray mass spectrometer
with nanoelectrospray interface, peptide synthesizers ABI 430A and
ABI 433A,
HP AminoQuant amino acid analyzer, several analytical (Knauer, HP 1050, 1100) and preparative (Shimadzu LC-8A) HPLC instruments.
The Szeged Regional Instrument Center allows us to use its
Bruker Avance DRX 400, 500 and 600 NMR instruments.
Computer infrastructure: Linux workstations and numerous PCs, a Linux-based cluster is being formed (currently it consists of 15
PCs and it will soon be expanded to 70 computers) with state-of-the-art molecular modelling (Q-Chem, Gromos, Gromacs, Chem3D, Gaussian),
compound and reaction database (CrossFire), synthesis design (Chiron, Chaos, Sesame), reaction and intermediate analysis (Rain, Igor),
chemical drawing (ChemDraw 7.0.1), database management (ChemFinder, Paradox, Access), text editing (WordPerfect,
Word), bibliography management (Papyrus 7.0, Reference Manager), Biblioscape,
spreadsheet (Quattro Pro, Excel), statistical analysis (SigmaPlot) and presentation (Corel Presentation,
PowerPoint) software. Last but not least there is a full-fledged kitchen which greatly contributes to our comfort and it is
the social hub of the Department.