Advalytix AmpliGrid Microscope Slide PCR
The AmpliGrid PCR slide from the Advalytix product line of Olympus is a standard microscope slide sized glass surface with chemically structured, DNA free reaction centers. Users can perform 48 PCR-reactions on one 75mmx25mm slide. By automating the reaction set-up on the Microlab STAR, users can achieve a maximum of accuracy and reliability. The automation of the reaction set-up requires high precision pipetting to ensure contamination free processing of the samples.
The AmpliGrid’s unmatched sensitivity allows users to perform PCR from single cells that can be lysed directly on the reaction centers and yields complete allelic profiles starting with DNA amounts as low as 30pg.
The certified STAR method automates the complete process, from pipetting the PCR mastermix to retrieval of the samples after the run. It is now possible to automate your amplification based or hybridisation based test as well as your high throughput forensic or paternity test with reduced cost and effort.
- Full automation of PCR on a standard microscope slide
- Reduction in chemistry costs
- Increase yields
- Process multiple slides simulaneously
- Preform PCR Set-up, clean-up and thermal cycling on one liquid handling workstation.
- High throughput
- Automatic error handling and recovery for minimum user intervention and longer walk-away times.
- Microlab STAR with 8 channel liquid handling workstation
- Microtiter plate carrier(s)
- Tube carrier(s), if samples presented in tubes
- Lysis, Wash, Elution reagent troughs and carriers
- Advalytix AmpliSpeed light cycler(s) mounted to Multiflex carrier(s)