I'm a 4th year student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. We are creating a brand new hackerspace and I am in charge of purchasing some equipment for working with biology, splicing and analyzing genes, etc etc. I'd like to mostly gear the space toward synthetic biology. I have about $3000 to spend. What do you suggest I buy to get started?
I'm looking for recommended equipment types (incubators, centrifuges, etc) as well as brands and distributors that I can by from and are reputable.
Disclaimer: I'm self-taught in biology and have taken only a couple labs in microbiology. I know more about analyzing genomes using Perl and R than splicing genomes with electrophoresis. So, I'm asking the experts that can help me. Thanks a million!
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Hmm, so you want to equip a lab with 3000$? Maybe you can buy a cheap used thermocycler (for PCR), a pipette and some tips ;) Btw, this question is clearly off-topic!
I think this question falls under biotechnology, not bioinformatics. Closing [EDIT: closed just as I was about to!]