March 12th 2004, Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today introduced its new ChemiGenius^Q, high resolution, multi-functional image analyser. This new system offers exceptional resolving power to automatically and accurately separate close band and spot images.

Inside its own compact light-tight darkroom, the ChemiGenius^Q has cutting edge, 12 bit, cooled camera technology. With a megapixel resolution of 1392 x 1040 pixels, the fully integrated camera ensures the ChemiGenius^Q has the best resolving capacity of any system in its class. Also essential for precise sample quantification, ChemiGenius^Q has excellent quantum efficiency across a range of wavelengths, allowing users to measure even the faintest chemiluminescent or fluorescent signals.

The versatile ChemiGenius^Q has built-in FIREWIRE technology so it can handle a variety of chemiluminescence, fluorescence and visible imaging tasks all in real-time. This benefits users by allowing them to position samples and leave chemiluminescence blots to develop unattended, while the system captures a series of real-time images. ChemiGenius^Q comes complete with Syngene’s GeneTools image analysis software, which saves hours of repetitive manual analysis by automating 2D spot densitometry, lane analysis and colony counting as well as band or spot matching and multi-layer gel analysis.

Laura Sullivan, Syngene’s Divisional Manager explained: “To separate images of close bands and spots – the quality of the digital camera is crucial. At Syngene we believe in keeping up to date with all aspects of imaging technology and this is why we have used a newly available, high specification camera. By skilfully integrating a great 12 bit, cooled camera with our new image capture and analysis software we have guaranteed that the ChemiGenius^Q outperforms any other multi-purpose image analyser of its type on the market today, and will significantly improve the accuracy of those all important results.”

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