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Easy to use

  • Application driven software with step-by-step, set-up
  • No specialist training required
  • Modules for replicating, gridding and re-arraying
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Track entire sample history

  • Record and track sample histories from sample spreading* to picking, replication and re-arraying
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Source data showing colony, process and receptacle information
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Destination data showing colony, process and receptacle information
  • Enhance visibility of history and location – tag important samples
    • Create tags that identify a process or include sample specific information
    • Add annotation to a process, receptacle or location
    • Export CSV files of all process data and settings at a later date
    • Add additional property to the well containing a colony e.g. test result from an external experiment
    • Show location maps to see receptacles from which colonies of interest have come and gone
    • Display a sample trail
  • Barcodes automate tracking process
QPix 460 reading plate identity

Unmatched picking efficiency

QPix systems gently and accurately select colonies with >98% picking efficiency:
  • Automatic calculation of agar height for precise and gentle picking
  • High speed operation - process hundreds to thousands of colonies
  • Organism-specific pins maximize material transfer

Pins available:

  • E. coli/phagemid
  • Phage plaque
  • Yeast
  • Streptomyces
colony picking pins
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Organism specific pins developed with sizes and shapes to ensure adequate transfer of material for every application.

Automated spreading of samples

QPix 460 plates onto agar QTrays and spreads transformation mixes to single clones.
  • Enables plating of 96 transformations in 30 minutes
  • Use of bioassay trays with 48-well dividers provides a cost effective alternative to Petri dishes
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Proprietary spreading pins of the QPix 460 system
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Pin sterilization eliminates carryover

  • Pin sterilization process suitable for any organisms
  • Proven through years of use in high throughput sequencing centers
Upper sequencing trace
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Upper sequencing trace: plasmid amplified from a single source colony picked using QPix2 and TempliPhi™ (GE Healthcare).

Lower sequencing trace: amplification reaction inoculated with the picking pin after cleaning using ethanol and halogen drying
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More than just colony pickers

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Synthetic Metagenomics: Converting Digital Information Back to Biology

Sam Deutsch Ph.D., Genomics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the DOE Joint Genome Institute

Hear how Dr Deutsch is using synthetic biology methods to overcome the challenges of converting the vast amounts of sequencing data produced to biochemical molecules that can be functionally characterized.

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