Personal Spotter
A flexible, small-footprint instrument for creation of microarrays on slides, glass bottom microplates, or custom labware with high level of accuracy and precision.

Personal Spotter allows you to design microarrays around the experiment, rather than adapting research around microarrays. The Bio Spotter is an extremely compact robotic instrument, to meet the demands for custom microarrays which maximizes flexibility and precision without compromising speed. The user friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows the user extensive control over protocol design.

The standard 9 pin print head, allows users to choose a wide selection of print configurations compatible with 96-well and 384-well plates.

The flexible GUI allows users run multiple processes in a single procedure with the ability to select a variable region of the source plate (Well Map) for each process and a variable format on the destination slide.

Features:

  • With its user friendly GUI the Bio Spotter software provides highly flexibility in the creation of the source plate and the pattern on the glass slide, thereby providing extensive control over the entire protocol design.
  • Interface: Windows-based GUI
  • Protocols: Create and save custom array map, cleaning protocol, standard templates, and quick test run feature
  • Hardware: Flexible pin configuration, flexible array placement
  • Provides a flexible well map as the source for printing of arrays compatible with the print head.
  • Ability to generate source plate based on slide configuration.
  • Track sample placement in arrays and import external files for array selection or source plate formatting.
  • Generate comprehensive log file to track any given array location.

Applications

The BioSpotter is available in two configurations -- Personal, Standard.

Personal Edition

  • Array Printing
  • Maldi Spotting
  • Expression Analysis
  • Proteomics

Standard Edition

  • Serial Dilution
  • Cherrypicking
  • Array Printing
  • Maldi Spotting
  • Expression Analysis
  • Proteomics

 

Specifications

Instrument Configuration

PERSONAL

Dimensions

W x D x H

20.00? x 15.25?? x 22.50?

520 mm x 385 mm x 570 mm

Platform Dimensions

12.00? x 9. 50?? x 4.00?

304 mm x 241 mm x 100 mm

Tiles

4

Slide Capacity

5

Dummy Slides

2

96 Well Plates, 384 Well Plates

Yes

Pin Head Capacity

9

Linear Stages

Stepper ? Open Loop

Precision

< 20 µm

Washing Of Pins

Heated Air

Vacuum / Blower

Standard

Optional

Standard

Printing Modes

Pin Tools

Clear Enclosure

Standard

Humidity Control

Optional

Cooling Tiles

Optional

Disposable Tips

No

Print Heads

Fixed

Reformat Source Plate

No

Regulatory Standard

Compliance with CE

 

Applications

Array Printing

MALDI Spotting

Expression Analysis

Proteomics