The Optima MAX-TL tabletop centrifuge offers context-sensitive onscreen help and is available in multiple native languages to meet a range of separation requirements. Users can set multiple programs of up to five steps each using a full-color LCD touchscreen. Compatible with TL labware and fixed-angle, swinging bucket, and near-vertical tube rotors, the Optima MAX-TL can be used in applications including separation of subcellular particles, viruses, and viral particles, rate-zonal separation of proteins in sucrose gradient, separation of lipoproteins, pelleting of RNA through a CsCl gradient, isopycnic separation of plasmid DNA, and others.