Biomek™ liquid robot

Others such as Macas et al. (1998) successfully adapted the Biomek 2000 (Beckman Coulter), a commonly used liquid handling robot, to prepare microarray slides using a specially constructed print head and quill pins. Up to 28 microscope slides could be placed on a work surface for printing. Biomek s HDRT head was adapted to accept microarray quill pins held between two parallel plates with holes drilled on 9-mm centers to dip into 96-well source plates. The quill pins were spring-loaded similar to the design... 

Fig. 8.4 Hardware components of the ProteinChip System. The ProteinChip Arrays (1) are arranged in bioprocessors to match the 96-well microtiter plate format (2). Samples can be applied using a customized Biomek 2000 liquid-handling robot...

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