Special service facilities support the work of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biology. These include facilities for

• BioOptics
• Electron microscopy / EM
• Flow cytometry / FACS
• Bioanalytical mass spectrometry
• Transgenics
• Electronic data processing
• Operation technology, and also
• a comprehensive specialist library
• the Information Retrieval Services (IVS-BM), of the Max Planck Society, through which Institute researchers can access information from numerous databases