Liquid Handling Systems

The Biomek FXp workstation uses a 384tip head, a 384pin tool for transfer of 20-50 nl volumes and a flexible 8 channel pipettor. Several additional modules allow washing of tips, shaking, temperature control and drying of tips by a fan. The workstation is placed in a cabinet to enable for semi sterile processes.

The workstation is equipped with a 384-channel MCA pipetting head (pipetting range 0.5-120 ul) with disposable and fixed tips and a flexible 8-channel pipettor with disposable tips, together with wash stations for both the 384-channel head and 8-channel pipettor.

Integrated devices are a Liconic plate hotel, SafireII plate reader, and Liconic STX44 plate hotel.

The workstation is equipped with a 384-channel head with disposable tips (pipetting range 0.5-60 ul), an 8-channel pipetting arm, a shaker, a peltier thermo element position, and a high-precision pipetting position for 1536-well plates on the pipetting deck.

Integrated devices are a Thermo plate hotel, PlateLOC sealer, XPeel peeler, and an ECHO 650 liquid handler.

The liquid handler can transfer liquids (DMSO and aequeous) in a range starting from 2.5 nL up to 500 nL.

The transfer is done using ultrasound and is contact-free, no tips are needed and cross-contamination of samples is avoided.

The instrument is able to place the samples at any position with an individual volume on the microtiter plate and therefore allows the generation of primary screening assay-ready plates (1:1 copies of the mother plates into dry assay plates), cherry-picked plates, compound mixtures, and compound dilutions for IC50 determination.