Staccato Sciclone ELISA

The Staccato Sciclone ELISA Station is a remarkably compact system for performing ELISA assays. At the heart of this system is a Twister II robot that coordinates the movement of all plates and tip racks from storage racks to the Sciclone G3 liquid handler, reagent dispenser, bar code scanner, incubator(s) plate washer and eventually the plate reader. The two-tiered design takes full advantage of the Twister II's unique vertical reach, allowing for a concentrated placement of many instruments. Unlike custom systems which typically require long delivery times and extensive factory and site acceptance testing, the Staccato Sciclone ELISA Station is a standard product that is available with fast turn around. The system is pre-integrated and arrives mostly assembled, requiring less than one day of installation. All system components are pre-mounted and all device locations are taught at the factory. Automated teaching routines are included allowing the system to be re-taught in the field in less than five minutes. Methods are created and scheduled using Caliper's industry leading iLink Pro software. Caliper's Applied Science & Technology Group works with a variety of reagent and consumables manufactures to pre-validate common assays for all Caliper systems.

All Staccato Application Series systems use a revolutionary new base table design called iBLOX™. iBLOX are modular tables that can be interconnected to form a variety of system configurations, using just three basic foundations, (A-Block, B-Block and C-Block). Each table comes with casters, allowing them to be easily rolled about, set in place and quickly leveled for operation. iBLOX provide "usable scalability" in that one can start with just a Sciclone liquid handler on an "A Block" and add additional automation at a later time, with no reconfiguration or loss of initial investment.