The Auer Lab operates several High-Pressure-Liquid-Chromatography (HPLC) instruments. Two Agilent 1100 series analytical Reversed-Phase (RP)-HPLC systems are used for dyes or fluorescently labelled samples, and for non-fluorescent or label-free samples. These two systems are routinely used for running quality control of small chemical compounds, peptides, and proteins. There is also an Agilent 1100 series preparative RP-HPLC used for the medium scale purification of mostly in-house synthesised compounds. We have a wide range of columns in used on the three Agilent instruments, suitable for most types of samples (small molecules, peptides, proteins using RP18, RP8 and RP4 columns representing different lengths of hydrophobic chains). Instrument number four is a Dionex (Thermo) analytical Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC)-HPLC which is used for the quality control of expressed and purified proteins testing their oligomerization or aggregation and folding state. For purification of expressed target proteins, we use an ÄKTA FPLC system. We apply a range of columns ranging from gel filtration to ion-exchange columns on the ÄKTA system.