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Lucidea 24-pen micro array spotter
The Lucidea Array Spotter is a new contact deposition microarray spotter from Amersham Biosciences. The Lucidea Array Spotter is part of the Lucidea platform of products offered by Amersham Biosciences for microarray analysis. The key features of Lucidea Array Spotter are:
Patent pending, stainless steel capillary pens that conserve sample and uniformly deposit picoliter volumes of target. From a single sample uptake of less than 200 nl, up to 150 spots can be spotted in duplicate, across each of 75 slides. The design of the pens minimizes clogging with target solution and simplifies washing after each sample, resulting in no detectable carryover or mixing of samples during printing. To achieve good spot uniformity, the pens in each pen set are quantitatively tested during manufacturing to ensure performance.
A newly designed five-step wash system eliminates the possibility of sample carryover as shown with dye-labelled DNA testing.
Lucidea Array Spotter allows for monitoring and control of humidity and temperature monitoring during spotting.
The target plates are kept in an area with minimized airflow to reduce evaporation while the printing is in progress.
The spotting chamber is encased inside the enclosure of the instrument, thus limiting the access of particulates during slide printing.
Several user-defined spotting modes are available to print arrays in up to four replicates per slide. Lucidea Spotting Pens can handle spotting fluids with significantly different viscosity.
Control software integrates all aspects of spotter operation. - Not Included
