Managing Your Compound Library

Micronic BV has announced a new technical note entitled `Managing your compound library`. It describes automation products that manage the 4 stages of sample storage volume measurement: tube decapping, non-contact sample volume measurement, tube capping and re-arraying the tubes. The Micronic Auto Decapper enables significant productivity gains to be made in the opening of multiple sample storage tubes. Easy to install and operate the Auto Decapper automatically removes and disposes of the caps from a full 96-tube rack in less than 10 seconds. Operation is safe and user friendly. Not only does the Auto Decapper
increase productivity but it also reduces the possibilities of sample cross-contamination with an integrated cap disposal device to ensure
that caps are not reused. The Micronic VolumeCheck is an innovative automated system that enables fast and reliable determination of sample volume in unsealed 96-well deep or shallow-well microplates, 96-tube racks, and highvolume test tube racks. Using proprietary acoustic sensor technology the VolumeCheck is able to provide high accuracy non-contact sample volume determination.
The Micronic Pneumatic Safe Sealer is a semi-automated tube-capping device designed to accelerate the process of sealing samples to ensure their integrity. Robust and easy-to-use, the compact Pneumatic SafeSealer automatically adjusts for different tube sizes and is able to consistently cap 96 tubes in less than 5 seconds. For automating re-arraying of compound storage tubes between multiple 96-tube racks, the compact Micronic MXL9 and MXL20 Tube Sorter systems brings large-scale automated tube handling within the budget of most laboratories. Intelligent robotics allows unattended and error-free processing of 9 or 20 tube racks at a time. For large compound libraries the XL advanced tube management system allows dynamic exchange of tube racks facilitating virtually an unlimited number of tubes to be automatically sorted. Built for productivity the MXL9 and MXL20 systems will automatically sort up to 900 tubes per hour. Features such as individual tube identification, bar coded rack set-up and detailed log files make the MXL Automated Tube Sorter range a best-in-class automation platform.