For Cellular imaging the CGSC houses a Molecular Devices Image Express Micro High Content Imager. equiped with both the standard epifluorescent optical path, and a transmitted light phase constrast light path.
Both the epifluorescent and phase contrast light paths support multiple objective lenses with powers up to 100X dry.
Currentaly available objectives are:
epifluorescentphase contrast
4X PLAN APO 0.204X PLAN FLUOR DL 0.13
10X PLAN FLUOR 0.3010X PH1 PLAN FLUOR DL 0.30
20X PLAN FLUOR ELWD 0.4520X PH1 PLAN FLUOR ELWD DM 0.45
40X PLAN FLUOR ELWD 0.6040X PH2 PLAN FLUOR ELWD DM 0.60
60X PLAN FLUOR ELWD 0.70 
To support a wide set of reporter dyes the IX-Micro houese 5 independet filter sets at a time. All five filters are availble for use durring plate aqusition, allowing for either 4 Fluoroflurs and Transmission images, or 5 Fluoroflurs, or 2 FRET Pairs and Transmission. The configureation may be changed with only minimal down time to reconfigure.
Currenaly the instrument is kept configured with:
SlotNominal Dye
1 DAPI/BFP
2 TRITC/Rhodamine
3 FITC/eGFP
4 Texas-Red/RFP/PI
5Transmited(none)

In oreder to better support the use of High-content screening the CGSC maintains the MetaExpress and AcuityExpress Image anlysis and informatic packages.

Through the core computing infrusctructer users are able to access image processing applications for, Cell Cycle, Cell Health, Cell Scoring, Count Nuclei, Granularity, Live/Dead, Mitoic Index, Neurite Outgrowth, Translocation, and Angiogenesis Tube Formation.

Users may also request to have access to MetaExpress and AcuityExpress from there lab.

The core maintains a computing infrustructer to allow ease of processing data, Central to this offline processing and data storage is a FiberChannel data storage system, with over 4TB of space currentaly allocated to screening work.
Twin offline processig systems that can automaticaly process the image data post collection.
A central Database server running Oracle-10g to allow for Informatics work using AcuityExpress.
As well as two user work stations in the Core so users can begin data reduction while attending to further data collections.