Staccato Sciclone Plate Replication

The Staccato Sciclone Replication Station is a highly modular system for automating complex reformatting, replication and hitpicking operations. The most basic Sciclone Replication Station features a Sciclone G3 liquid handler on a modular base table. The Sciclone liquid handler is the most flexible liquid handler available with a twenty position deck and a variety of on-deck options such as shaking and temperature controlled locators or positive pressure filtration, to name but a few. Sciclone is able to swap arrays 'on the fly' and can support any one of three interchangeable heads (nL, Low Volume or High Volume) and also supports a bulk reagent dispenser as well as the eight channel 'Z8.' Sciclone also offers an optional servo gripper for on-deck automation.

For additional walk away time, Sciclone Replication Station can be field retrofitted with a Twister II robot on an iBLOX base unit. For maximum automated loading, a Presto AutoStack unit may also be field retrofitted. 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.

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 easily and quickly created 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.