Automated protein analyzer mosquito® X1

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mosquito X1 enables accurate and precise single-channel positive displacement pipetting from 25 nL to 1.2 μL (LV) or 500 nL to 5 μL (HV). With programmable sampling of any individual well in any plate, as well as multiple deck positions, mosquito X1 is ideally suited to rapidly cherry pick compounds from high throughput screening (HTS) plates for validation and secondary profiling or to normalize compound stock concentrations. High speed, low volume hit picking from plates Designed for automated low volume hit picking, mosquito X1 offers precision sampling from any individual well in any plate with or without a foil seal. The instrument’s powerful capabilities enable researchers to quickly select small volumes of hits from a variety of primary screening plates and transfer them directly into assay ready plates, averaging just 6 seconds for aspirate, plate deck move, dispense, and tip change. Integration-ready for extended automation capabilities mosquito X1 extends the benefits of automation through ‘off the shelf’ integration of the Cherry Picker II hit-picking system. This stand-alone hit-picking workstation automates the process of loading and removing source plates from the mosquito X1, as well as scanning plate bar codes in order to identify wells to be addressed, and volumes to be transferred as defined by a simple .CSV worklist. Versatile single channel pipetting Samples can be multi-dispensed into multiple wells or plates, pooled into a single well and even mixed. With 1 nL resolution, mosquito X1 is well suited for transferring exact volumes for normalization processes.