Health and Biotechnology

Proteomic Core Laboratory

ESI-MS electrospray ionization mass-spectrometry
ESI-MS/MS electrospray ionization tandem mass-spectrometry
nano-LC-MS/MS nano liquid chromatography coupled electrospray ionization tandem mass-spectrometry
Isoelectric focusing: GE Healthcare IPGPhor 3
Vertical phoresis system: GE Healthcare DALTsix and SE600 Ruby, Invitrogen XCell SureLock Minicell

The Bioinformatics, Algorithmics, and Data Mining group BIIT lead by prof. Jaak Vilo is a joint research group between the Department of Computer Science (University of Tartu), Quretec, and the Estonian Biocenter. Our main research topics and capabilities include the gene regulation, gene expression data analysis, biological data mining, systems biology, combinatorial pattern matching, developing software for biomedical research databases, as well as partnering in stem cell and cancer related projects (http://biit.cs.ut.ee/).

National translational medicine and clinical research center

preclinical visualization unit (under formation
disease model unit
clinical research unit
heightened biosafety research unit

Core laboratory of dna genotyping and sequencing

DNA sequencing;
Finding new DNA polymorphisms and mutations
Fragment analysis;
Whole-genome genotyping;
Genotyping a region specified by the person who orders;
Whole-genome expression analysis;
Expression analysis of the genes specified by the person who orders.

Transgenic technology

The vivarium of transgenic technology of the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, provides the following services: breeding of transgenic mice, reproduction of mice lines, mice with exactembryologic age, testing mice in in vivo circumstances.

The vivarium meets the needs of the Animal Protection Act of the Republic of Estonia and the Regulation of the Government No 181 from 30th April 2004.

Biological analyses of working and living environment

Amount of aerobic bactaria in air
Amount of mold in air

Estonian Genome Center

Department of collecting and processing data and biological material
Biobank and biological material unit
Genotyping and sequencing center core laboratory
IT unit with servers and necessary databases

Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds

In Work Environment Core Laboratory of the University of Tartu can be carried out volatile organic compound (VOC) analysis. We use a methodology based on the standards EVS-EN ISO 10882-2, EVS-EN 689 and ISO 9487. The analyzes are carried out with gas chromatography-mass spectrometer, which allows us to identify the compounds present in the air, and the quantization