1. Manual glass-slide microarraying system

 

Technical data

Manufacturer: V&P Scientific, INC

Model: VP 478A / 472A / 470 / 475

Features: Enables the printing of duplicate microarray slides from 96 or 384 well plates with up to 768 spots per array. Samples can be spotted as duplicates, triplicates or more, with spot size ~500 microns in diameter (depending on slide surface), spot pitch 1,125 microns on horizontal axis and 750 microns on the vertical axis. The pitch can be changed easily for different spot sizes by skipping rows or columns.

 

2. Robotic Microarrayer

 

Technical data

Manufacturer: Arrayjet

Model: Sprint

Features: Enables the printing of up to 20 microarray slides from 96 or 384 well plates with up to 53,000 spots per slide. Samples can be spotted as duplicates, triplicates or more, with spot size ~100 microns in diameter (depending on slide surface). The robot is equipped with a temperature and humidity control system.

 

 

 

 

 

3. Microarray Scanner

 

Technical data

Manufacturer: Axon Instruments

Model: GenePix Autoloader 4200AL

Features: Four-color (blue, red, green and yellow) scanning enabling a broad choice of dyes, with automatic slide handling for up to 36 microarray slides. User selectable laser power (5-100% laser transmission in 1% increments) PMT gain and scan resolution (between 5 and 100 microns). Compatible with glass slides, membrane-coated glass slides and embedded arrays and a wide variety of samples (carbohydrate, protein, gene, tissue and cell arrays).