Animal Scientists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Analytical balances (Analytic balances)
• Hematology analyzers (Animal blood analyzers)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Animal catching equipment)
• Feed mixers (Animal feed mixers)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Animal feeders)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Animal heater lamps)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Artificial insemination kits)
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Automatic carbon dioxide CO2 incubators)
• Veterinary injection or suction units or accessories (Balling guns)
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Blood collection syringes
• Calorimeters (Bomb calorimeters)
• Incubators or brooders for poultry (Brooders)
• Gas burners (Bunsen burners)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Calf pullers)
• Restraints (Calf restraints)
• Calorimeters
• Stunner (Captive bolt stunners)
• Animal weighing scales (Cattle scales)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Cattle squeeze chutes)
• Circulating baths (Circulating water baths)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Computerized cattle feeders)
• Conductivity meters (Conductance meters)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Dehorners)
• Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers (Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers)
• Desktop computers
• Histology sampling and dissecting stations (Dissecting kits)
• Animal husbandry equipment (Ear punches)
• Stunner (Electric stunners)
• Laboratory balances (Electronic laboratory balances)
• Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flasks)
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers (Evacuated blood collection tubes)
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters (Fiber digesters)
• Spectrophotometers (Fluorescence spectrophotometers)
• Electrophoresis system accessories (Fraction collectors)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze dryers)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Gel documentation systems (Gel electrophoresis equipment)
• Dropping pipettes (Glass pipettes)
• Laboratory beakers (Graduated beakers)
• Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated cylinders)
• Handheld thermometer (Handheld digital thermometers)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment)
• Homogenizers
• Stirring hotplates (Hot plate stirrers)
• Hybridization ovens or incubators (Hybridization chambers)
• Hydrometers
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Imaging microscopes)
• Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectrometers)
• Drying cabinets or ovens (Laboratory drying ovens)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Laboratory fume hoods)
• Vacuum ovens (Laboratory vacuum ovens)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Water baths (Laboratory water baths)
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow cabinets)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Densitometers (Laser densitometers)
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Animal weighing scales (Livestock scales)
• Chopping machinery (Meat choppers)
• Commercial use food grinders (Meat grinders)
• Microcentrifuges
• Microscope slides
• Microcentrifuges (Microultracentrifuges)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Optical compound microscopes)
• Orbital shaking water baths
• Oxygen sensors (Oxygen meters)
• Personal computers
• Petri plates or dishes (Petri dishes)
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
• Incubators or brooders for poultry (Poultry incubators)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Densitometers (Scanning densitometers)
• Calculators or accessories (Scientific calculators)
• Gel dryers (Slab dryers)
• Specimen collectors (Specimen collection containers)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steam autoclaves)
• Tissue culture incubators
• Triple beam balances
• Ultracentrifuges
• Immersion circulators (Ultrasonic water baths)
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or echo probes (Ultrasound probes)
• Spectrophotometers (Ultraviolet UV visible spectrophotometers)
• Veterinary castration instruments (Veterinary emasculators)
• Laboratory flasks (Volumetric flasks)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Best Linear Unbiased Prediction BLUP software
• Cowculator
• COWGAME
• Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequence analysis software
• FEEDLOT CALC
• Master Ration Calculator
• Nutrition Balance Analyzer NUTBAL
• SAS software
• VSNi ASReml
• VSNi GenStat

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD software

• Data base user interface and query software

• DAGRIS
• Domestic Animal Diversity Information Service DAD-IS
• Microsoft Access
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals OMIA

• Electronic mail software

• Email software

• Internet browser software

• Web browser software

• Map creation software

• ESRI ArcGIS software

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)