News
17-January 2012 – LGC Genomics
unveils new repliKator liquid handling and plate replication robot
at PAG 2012
KBioscience and LGC Genomics announce
development of repliKator automated liquid handling
system
The Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference of 2012 sees the
official unveiling of the new repliKator liquid handling, plate
replication robot from LGC Genomics. The new robotic platform is
the latest instrumentation development from LGC Genomics following the merger with KBioscience in July 2011.
The repliKator platform uses proven liquid handling automation
technology to deliver a flexible, easy to use, automated liquid
handling, plate replication system capable of preparing of up to 24
x 1536 well PCR plates in less than 5 minutes. The repliKator can
be operated as a standalone instrument or easily integrated into
existing laboratory robotic installations.
Initially developed to provide increased throughput of our own
SNPline genotyping instrument platform, the repliKator is also
compatible with the KBioscience developed Kraken laboratory
workflow management software to allow even greater efficiency and
throughput. Other features of the repliKator system include an
integrated tip wash station, simple and intuitive software
interface as well as the ability to dispense into both shallow and
deep-well plates.
Further development of the repliKator system to combine magnetic
particle separation technology with the liquid handling capability
of the repliKator will enable the development of a fully-automated,
walk away solution for nucleic acid extraction capable of
processing 8x 96 well microtitre plates per hour.
Jon Curtis, Group Operations Manager of LGC Genomics (and co
founder of KBioscience, an LGC company since July 2011), commented:
“We are delighted to have the opportunity to show the new
repliKator robot at this year’s Plant and Animal Genome exhibition.
As with all our instrumentation solutions, these robots have been
developed to meet the needs of our own service laboratories and we
are pleased to make the valuable throughput increases we have
achieved, available to the wider research community. Flexibility is
a key element to all our instrumentation solutions and the ability
to incorporate the repliKator into existing SNPline or other
laboratory platforms has been a key element of our development
process. Our objective is that these instruments will enable our
customers undertaking important research across a variety of
genomics applications to achieve cost efficiencies that will drive
even greater value for their research spend.
Visit us at Stand 306-312 or contact Jeffrey Anthony on +44(0)
7894 094412
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