Instruments & Accessories

No One Else Offers the Full Sequence

Applied Biosystems equips all of its genetic analyzers with the same proven capillary electrophoresis technology, application-specific software, industry-leading BigDye® Terminator chemistry, and world-class support. Whether you need a single-capillary system for a few reactions a day, or a multicapillary system for a few million, we have your needs covered. And with our value-added upgrade program, you won’t lose a beat when you decide to increase your throughput.

Instruments

Which Genetic Analyzer Is Right for You?

	Instrument
	3730xL	3730	3500xL	3500	3130xL	3130	310
Number of Capillaries	96	48	24	8	16	4	1
Compatible Applications: (S) Supported; (A) AB Demonstrated; (C) Customer Demonstrated; (N) Not Supported
BAC End Sequencing	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Checking Clone Constructs	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
De Novo Sequencing	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Heterozygote Detection & Resequenicng (SNP-based)	S	S	S	S	S	S	A
HLA Typing	N	N	S	S	S	S	C
Methylation	S	S	S	S	S	S	C
mtDNA Sequencing	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Resequencing
- Comparative Genomics	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
- Indels	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
SAGE™ Method	C	C	C	C	C	C	A
SNP Analysis	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
General Sizing of PCR Products	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
Fragment Length Polymorphism
- AFLP	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
- RFLP	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
Large Fragment Analysis
- BAC Fingerprinting	A	A	A	A	A	A	N
- VNTR	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Microsatellite
- Genotyping	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
- Analysis for Forensics/HID	N	N	S	S	S	S	S
- Instability/RER	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
Chimerism Studies	C	C	C	C	C	C	C
Conformation Analysis
- SSCP	N	N	N	N	A	A	S
Relative Flourescent Quantitation
- Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH)	S	S	S	S	S	S	S
SNP Genotyping
- SNaPshot® System	A	A	S	S	S	S	S
- SNPlex™ System	S	S	S	S	S	N	N
DNA Protein Binding Assays & DNA Fingerprinting	C	C	C	C	C	C	C