E-Gel Precast Agarose Gels

Fast and sensitive analysis of DNA and RNA samples

Minimize time-consuming and messy prep work
Run up to twice as fast as conventional handcast gels
Available in a variety of agarose percentages, well formats, and throughput capacities to suit your applications

E-Gel Precast Gel and Ladder Selection Tool

Which E-Gel precast gel is right for you?

Goals	General purpose	High sensitivity and faster separation	High efficiency cloning
Precast gel types	E-Gel	E-Gel EX	E-Gel CloneWell II
Number of wells	Single row of 11 wells	Single row of 11 wells	Two rows of 7 wells (for 7 samples)
Stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain	SYBR Gold II DNA stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain
Agarose, %	0.8 % 1.0 % 2.0 % 4.0 %	1.0 % 2.0 % 4.0 %	0.8 %
Resolution	20 bp–10 kb	50 bp–5 kb	100 bp–6 kb
Run time	30 min	10 min	14–36 min
Sample volume	20 µL	20 µL	20-25 µL
	Order	Order	Order

Goals	General purpose	High sensitivity and faster separation
Precast gel types	E-Gel	E-Gel EX
Number of wells	22	22
Stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain	SYBR Gold II DNA stain
Agarose, %	1.0 % 2.0 %	1.0 % 2.0 %
Resolution	50 bp–5 kb	50 bp–5 kb
Run time	30 min	10 min
Sample volume	20 µL	20 µL
	Order	Order

Goals	High throughput
Precast gel types	E-Gel 48	E-Gel 96
Number of wells	48 sample wells and 4 marker wells	96 sample wells and 8 marker wells
Stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain or Ethidium bromide	SYBR Safe DNA stain or Ethidium bromide
Agarose, %	1.0 % 2.0 % 4.0 %	1.0 % 2.0 %
Resolution	10 bp–10 kb	100 bp–2 kb
Run time	20 min	12 min
Sample volume	15 µL	20 µL
	Order	Order

Goals	Precise DNA fragment library size selection	High range fragment library separation
Precast gel types	E-Gel SizeSelect II	E-Gel NGS
Number of wells	Single row of 7 wells	Single row of 11 wells
Stain	SYBR Gold stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain
Agarose, %	2.0 %	0.8 %
Resolution	50 bp–2 kb	800 bp–10 kb
Run time	8–20 min	20 min
Sample volume	20-25 µL	20 µL
	Order	Order

Routine
electrophoresis

Goals	General purpose	High sensitivity and faster separation	High efficiency cloning
Precast gel types	E-Gel	E-Gel EX	E-Gel CloneWell II
Number of wells	Single row of 11 wells	Single row of 11 wells	Two rows of 7 wells (for 7 samples)
Stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain	SYBR Gold II DNA stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain
Agarose, %	0.8 % 1.0 % 2.0 % 4.0 %	1.0 % 2.0 % 4.0 %	0.8 %
Resolution	20 bp–10 kb	50 bp–5 kb	100 bp–6 kb
Run time	30 min	10 min	14–36 min
Sample volume	20 µL	20 µL	20-25 µL
	Order	Order	Order

Medium throughput
electrophoresis

Goals	General purpose	High sensitivity and faster separation
Precast gel types	E-Gel	E-Gel EX
Number of wells	22	22
Stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain	SYBR Gold II DNA stain
Agarose, %	1.0 % 2.0 %	1.0 % 2.0 %
Resolution	50 bp–5 kb	50 bp–5 kb
Run time	30 min	10 min
Sample volume	20 µL	20 µL
	Order	Order

High throughput
electrophoresis

Goals	High throughput
Precast gel types	E-Gel 48	E-Gel 96
Number of wells	48 sample wells and 4 marker wells	96 sample wells and 8 marker wells
Stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain or Ethidium bromide	SYBR Safe DNA stain or Ethidium bromide
Agarose, %	1.0 % 2.0 % 4.0 %	1.0 % 2.0 %
Resolution	10 bp–10 kb	100 bp–2 kb
Run time	20 min	12 min
Sample volume	15 µL	20 µL
	Order	Order

Library preparation
for NGS

Goals	Precise DNA fragment library size selection	High range fragment library separation
Precast gel types	E-Gel SizeSelect II	E-Gel NGS
Number of wells	Single row of 7 wells	Single row of 11 wells
Stain	SYBR Gold stain	SYBR Safe DNA stain
Agarose, %	2.0 %	0.8 %
Resolution	50 bp–2 kb	800 bp–10 kb
Run time	8–20 min	20 min
Sample volume	20-25 µL	20 µL
	Order	Order

Resources and support for E-Gel Agarose DNA Electrophoresis Systems

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Selection guide

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Selection tool

Use the E-Gel precast gel and ladder selection tool with filters for instrument, gel stain, fragment resolution, and more to refine available options.