Fully Automated

The Parallab® 350 is designed for true unattended automation and walk away processing.  The system stores all of the components for the reactions and cleanup (e.g. template, Big Dye® cocktail, magnetic beads for purification, alcohol and water) for a full day's run on a chilled work deck.  

During the reaction assembly, the robot moves to the required plate location and removes the insulated lid to provide access for the Nano-Pipetter.  The Nano-Pipetter aspirates a small volume of reagent into each of its 96 thin-walled glass capillaries, each serving as a reaction vessel. 
After all of the components are automatically drawn into the Nano-Pipetter, they are effectively mixed using a high speed shuttling of the fluids inside the capillaries. The Nano-Pipetter is then seated in the onboard high speed thermal cycler, where the 96 capillaries are reversibly sealed and thermal cycled.  Following thermal cycling, magnetic bead solution is aspirated into each reaction tube where the purification takes place.  The 96 cleaned up, final products are then dispensed into an output plate for off-line analysis.  The Nano-Pipetter is then automatically cleaned with the onboard wash station in preparation for the next run.

Parallab 350 System Components:

• Heavy duty gantry style robotic arm
• Automated 96-channel Nano-Pipetter
• Onboard high-speed air thermal cycler
• Onboard automated wash station for the Nano-Pipetter
• Onboard purification station; including magnetic seperator tool and agitating trough for bead solution
• Eighteen chilled reagent nests with insulated lids for 96 or 384 well microtiter plates and reagent troughs
• Water station for in-line laboratory grade water
• System control PC with  a 17" monitor
• Vacuum pump, transfer pump, waste holding tank and associated tubing
• Completely enclosed workdeck
• Cycle decontamination components

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