As a reference proteomics center, the Proteomics Unit has state-of-the-art equipment consisiting on high resolution liquid chromatography and electrophoresis systems, and four advanced mass spectrometers to identify and quantify the proteins of interest.

The instruments available at the Proteomics Unit cover the most advanced techniques of the proteomics field, and are accessible to national and international scientists.

Detailed list of equipment currently available in Unit:

Mass spectrometers

  • Orbitrap Astral (Thermo)
  • Orbitrap Fusion Lumos (Thermo)
  • 2x Orbitrap Eclipse (Thermo)
  • Exploris 240 (Thermo)

Chromatographic systems

  • 5x Nano-HPLC chromatographic (Vanquish Neo, Easy nLC Thermo)
  • 2x Micro-HPLC chromatographic equipment (Vanquish Flex Thermo, Agilent 1200)

Computer resources

  • HP Server X5660 DL360G6/G7 (2xCPU, 12 cores, 64 GB RAM).
  • ProLiant BL460c Gen9 (2xCPU E5-2690 v4, 28 cores, 64 GB)

Software suites and packages

  • Mascot Server v2.6 (Matrix Science).
  • Proteome Discoverer v3.2 (Thermo).
  • PEAKS 12.0 (Peaks).
  • Progenesis 2.0 (Waters)
  • Open Source packages installed as part of the data analysis pipeline: DIANN, FragPipe, SAINTexpress, MSstats, etc.