Syngene - Software Upgraded for Multi-plexing Allows Seamless Overlaying of Separate Gel Images

12 March 2003 Cambridge, UK: Syngene, a world-leading manufacturer of image analysis solutions, today introduced its GeneSnap Version 6 software, featuring new multi-plexing capabilities. The software upgrade allows the acquistion and automatic overlaying of up to three images simultaneously, and saves time by eliminating the need to manually compare separate gel or blot images.

GeneSnap Version 6, available free of charge to existing GeneSnap users, is ideal for scientists using chemiluminescent samples with colorimetric markers. It is also useful for those wanting to run fluorescent stains of contrasting colours, for example red, blue and green on the same gel. Each individual image can be captured using different lighting conditions or filters and the software then automatically combines them, creating a single, perfect image. The image can be saved in full colour or monochrome and can easily be transferred for further analysis to GeneTools, Syngene’s powerful image analysis software. 

Paul Ellwood, Syngene’s Sales and Marketing Director commented: ”Since GeneSnap generates an exact image from three different ones, it allows scientists working on DNA fingerprinting for instance, to use identical running conditions with a differently stained sample and marker run in the same well. In fact, the new multi-plexing capabilities of GeneSnap Version 6 are so versatile, they open up the potential for a whole range of applications that many scientists would have previously considered too time consuming or manually demanding to try.”

Multi-plexing image captured on Syngene's GeneGenius system

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Jayne Arthur, Syngene, Beacon House, Nuffield Road, Cambridge, CB4 1TF, UK.
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Note to Editors
Syngene is a world-leading supplier of integrated imaging solutions for analysis and documentation of gel-based information. Syngene’s systems are used by more than 10,000 research organisations and over 50,000 individual scientists world-wide and include many of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies and major research institutes. 

Syngene, founded in 1997, is a division of the Synoptics Group based in Cambridge, UK. The Group’s other divisions, Syncroscopy and Synbiosis, specialise in digital imaging solutions for microscopy and microbial applications respectively. Synoptics currently employs 50 people in its UK and subsidiary operation in Frederick, USA. The Group has profitable revenue of almost $10 million and continues to grow rapidly.