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The Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen is a combined research and educational institution training bachelors, master students and PhDs to the highest vocational standards within all fields of the molecular sciences. As the largest chemical research institution within Danish academia, our lecturers also teach chemistry to students from the fields of biology, biochemistry, biomedicine and nanotechnology. As part of the NNF funded infrastructure center “Peptide Foundry” a range of spectroscopic services will be made available to users of the center. To meet this end new equipment will be obtained and existing department equipment will be updated to modern standard with a unified software interface. This will enable users of the infrastructure facility to obtain spectroscopic data on natural and synthetically modified biomolecules in solution using polarimetry, circular dichroism, absorbance, and fluorescence spectroscopy.
The Peptide Foundry at the Department of Chemistry intends to purchase a range of equipment for several kinds of spectroscopic analysis from Biolab to update the park of existing spectroscopic instruments to a modern standard with a unified software interface. The intended purchase consists of replacement of the instruments Jasco J-815 spectropolarimeter, Jasco FP-6300 spectrofluorometer, Jasco FP-6200 spectrofluorometer, Jasco V650 Bio spectrometer, and a refurbishment and software update of an existing Jasco P-2000 polarimeter. The updated park of spectroscopic instruments will form the spectroscopy infrastructure of the Peptide Foundry center that will service researchers from inside and outside of the university. A coherent software platform is required to allow ease of access for non-expert users to be trained efficiently and to allow a streamlined and unified software interface for both instrument control, analysis, manipulation and export. As the procured instruments will be part of a service facility their continued operation must be ensured for which reason a supplier with capacity for day-to-day service in Copenhagen is required.