Nucleic acid extraction lies at the beginning of almost every molecular biology-based workflow. Although the principle behind it is simple, when done poorly, it can have a significant impact on final experimental results. If working with patient samples, maintaining sample integrity becomes even more essential and reliable results are paramount to ensuring a fast and accurate diagnosis.
The laboratory workforce is shrinking making it more difficult to fill open positions. This lack of expertise will make automation a critical component of lab management in the future.
Automate sample prep for QSight® Triple Quadrupole LC/MS/MS analysis | Improve the efficiency of your LC-MS/MS by automating your QSight® Triple Quadrupole LC-MS/MS sample prep with the JANUS® G3 workstation.
Scale NGS Projects with the Sciclone® G3 NGSx Automated Liquid Handler | Listen to Dr. Renata Pellegrino, the Laboratory Director in the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, discuss how her team has combined PerkinElmer’s Sciclone® technology and Twist® Bioscience’s target capture chemistry to optimize her next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow.
Three Sciclone® G3 Workstation Automated Methods for Targeted Sequencing are Designated Illumina Qualified | Illumina analyzed multiple automated liquid handling methods to determine if they provided consistent, reproducible library prep when used with Thermo Fisher® AmpliSeq™ technology for Illumina® sequencing.
Automation for KAPA® HyperPlus™ Kits | The Sciclone® G3 NGSx iQ™ workstation (Figure 1) is specifically designed to automate the most complex Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) library construction workflows.
Exome Sequencing using Rapid Automation Technology | Efficient library construction for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) of human whole exome sequencing (WES) is fundamentally improved with the superior oligo prob design and performance of the Twist® Human Core Exome Kit. This kit enables increased uniformity and enables increased uniformity and deeper coverage of difficult regions while driving down the cost per sample.
Contamination-Free, Worry-Free, Walk-Away Library Prep Automation | Automation of library preparation increases throughput, reduces labor costs, and eliminates many of the sources of human error. As most next generation sequencing (NGS) library preparation protocols include one or more polymerase chain reaction (PCR) steps, an on-deck thermal cycler is needed to achieve true walk-away automation.
AUTOMATED LIQUID HANDLING EVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW One of the first reported systems for liquid handling was described in 1875 by Thaddeus M. Stevens, a professor in Analytical Chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indiana. The device was designed to control the flux of water through a filter [...]
