The phoenix can dispense multiple drops per well. You can easily program dispensing on the deck wherever, whatever and whenever, as long as it fits in the plate holder . It can handle at least the 1536 pitch (4 x 384), so if you specify the quadrant of the 384 well cell it will dispense there. Your drops may merge, though. It has a separate dispensing head for proteins or additives. You can dispense from up to 16 "protein" tubes (chilled) and 2 ambient tubes, plus whatever is on the deck, in whatever order you want. Since the setup programming is an easy gui, it's not a big deal.
I am certain that the mosquito sheets would work on any robot. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Van Den Berg, Bert Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] crystallization robot The mosquito has special (albeit fairly pricey at $13 each) plastic sheets that allow setup of hanging drops in a 96-well format. It can also do multiple drops per well. As far as I know this is a capability unique to the Mosquito but I may be wrong. Bert van den Berg University of Massachusetts Medical School Program in Molecular Medicine Biotech II, 373 Plantation Street, Suite 115 Worcester MA 01605 Phone: 508 856 1201 (office); 508 856 1211 (lab) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.umassmed.edu/pmm/faculty/vandenberg.cfm ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Lisa A Nagy Sent: Wed 1/9/2008 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] crystallization robot Looking at the mosquito, it doesn't have any cover-slip handling robotics, either. So it's the same thing- rearrange the dispense location and flip the cover- which is either a glass plate or mylar or a tape seal. -- Lisa Nagy University of Alabama-Birmingham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
