mosquito nanolitre liquid handler. For a high resolution image contact
David Robinson
December 5th 2005
Royston, UK – TTP LabTech announced the release of version 2.7 software
for its easy-to-use nanolitre liquid handler, mosquito®, to benefit
screeners as well as protein crystallographers. The new functionality
improves serial dilution set-up for screeners, automates new
applications for protein crystallographers and enhances the new mosquito
X1 hit-picking system.
mosquito’s software supports worklists by reading CSV files from
Microsoft Excel to generate protocols and write results to CSV for
display in Excel. This is ideal for many screening applications as it
gives a simple and very flexible method for editing complex pipetting
protocols or making changes on the go, without detailed knowledge of the
instrument. It also makes it easy for the user to cross-reference
worklists with the actual pipetting results.
New multi-aspirate protocols enable mosquito to automate additive
screens. For protein crystallographers, the “aspirate, aspirate,
dispense” capability allows a combination of solutions to be dispensed
simultaneously – with additional mixing if required – resulting in
perfect drop formation with no protein evaporation. It also allows
crystallographers to set up multiple conditions in one well by creating
several multi-component drops, allowing different constructs, volume
ratios or protein concentrations to be assessed at the same time.
Improved X and Y movement also allows the single tip mosquito X1 to
pipette in any location on any vessel that will fit on mosquito’s deck.
This allows extremely accurate drop placement on a range of non-standard
plates or surfaces such as mass spec chips, microscope slides or cover
slides.
These changes further enhance an instrument already known for its
flexibility. mosquito can pipette a wide range of viscosities
accurately, is able to address different plate formats in the same
protocol, and has no need to change the head for differing applications.
ENDS
For more information visit
www.ttplabtech.com
Editors’ notes
About TTP LabTech Ltd
Based near Cambridge, UK, TTP LabTech is part of TTP Group plc, one of
the world's most successful technology companies. TTP LabTech’s mission
is to provide practical and innovative solutions in the pharmaceutical
and healthcare industries by combining the best science with first-rate
engineering. TTP LabTech’s products are designed to increase efficiency,
effectiveness, flexibility or overall capability in key
biopharmaceutical research processes including compound storage (comPOUND®),
low volume liquid handling (mosquito®) and fluorescence detection
(Acumen Explorer™).
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