Different Forms of Electrophoresis:

Present day's electrophoresis is one of the most important methods for molecular separation since this powerful technique is reasonably simple and inexpensive. Electrophoresis could be one-dimensional (1D) meaning one plane of separation or two-dimensional (2D) meaning two planes of separation. Here the One-dimensional electrophoresis is used for most routine protein and nucleic acid separations.

Two-dimensional separation of proteins is used for proteomics studies, finger printing, etc.

Widely, different kinds of electrophoresis are categorised as follows:

i)          Slab electrophoresis

ii)        Capillary electrophoresis