
Thermal cycler recommendation
#1
Posted 17 December 2012 - 09:30 PM
currently i laid my eye on Biorad's C-1000. any other better than this?
#2
Posted 17 December 2012 - 11:41 PM
I can recommend Hybaid (possibly now thermo-fisher) and MJ cyclers.
#3
Posted 18 December 2012 - 02:45 AM
We are currently having MJ Mini and are pretty content with it.
C-1000 model is the highest in range, with the ability of changing blocks from96 to 2x48 (when you can run two different reactions) or other (but I personally wouldn't trust much the real-time one), so it's more versatile,high-throughput, and also with networking ability.
However it also has touchscreen and operation system, and from experience, these are the first thing that would go off, older cyclers could last for 20 years, because they were simple.
It depends on your needs.
Other company to look for reliable cyclers is Life Technologies (they acquired former Perkin-Elmer long time ago), their Verity model can run six different temperatures instead of gradient.
Our country has a serious deficiency in lighthouses. I assume the main reason is that we have no sea.
I never trust anything that can't be doubted.
'Normal' is a dryer setting. - Elizabeth Moon
#4
Posted 18 December 2012 - 07:39 AM
if you want to get one on the cheap (and don't mind working with your hands) you can check out openpcr.
Edited by mdfenko, 18 December 2012 - 07:40 AM.
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#5
Posted 18 December 2012 - 09:13 AM

Our country has a serious deficiency in lighthouses. I assume the main reason is that we have no sea.
I never trust anything that can't be doubted.
'Normal' is a dryer setting. - Elizabeth Moon
#6
Posted 23 December 2012 - 09:48 PM
So far I only see heating rate of 4C/s and cooling rate of 3C/s in most thermal cyclers.
#7
Posted 25 June 2014 - 12:38 PM
I also recomend Biometra themral cyclers. Easy to use and incredibly silent.
#8
Posted 25 June 2014 - 02:17 PM
I've been very happy with the MJ (now Bio-Rad) cyclers. We now have many Eppendorf Mastercycler units, which work well, despite having some klunky software quirks.