Engin-- We have used the Cybi-Well robot for daughtering from the deep well masterblocks into our crystallization trays for several years and really like it. It is made by Cy-Bio.
HTH! annie Annie Hassell Glaxo Smithkline 5 Moore Drive RTP, NC 27709 919/483-3228 919/483-0368 (FAX) [email protected] "Engin Ozkan" <[email protected]> Sent by: "CCP4 bulletin board" <[email protected]> 11-Mar-2010 00:55 Please respond to "Engin Ozkan" <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [ccp4bb] crystallization plates and robotics Hi, everybody, We recently recognized a problem with our Innovaplate SD-2 (a.k.a. MRC 2-Well) plates from Hampton. Our last batch of Innovaplates have an inconsistent well height such that our crystallization robot (a Mosquito) cannot put protein in all the wells. When tested with an older Innovaplate or a hanging drop cover, everything was fine. Is anybody else observing this? I heard that European customers might be getting the same plates from a different source/manufacturing facility. If that is the case, from which company do you buy these plates? Another question is about 96-channel pipetting equipment: For experiments unrelated to crystallography I am in need of getting a 96-channel pipetting machine, such as Rainin's Liquidator. I am also hoping to use this for transferring crystallization screens from blocks into crystallization trays (Our robot sets up only the drops, but does not transfer large volumes of crystallization solutions). Does anybody use the Liquidator for crystallization reagent transfers, and if you do so, would you recommend it? I am open to any brand/model, so all suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Engin -- Engin Özkan Post-doctoral Scholar Laboratory of K. Christopher Garcia Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dept of Molecular and Cellular Physiology 279 Campus Drive, Beckman Center B173 Stanford School of Medicine Stanford, CA 94305 ph: (650)-498-7111
