Automating Applications In A Protected Environment

Kingston, UK - Velocity11, an Agilent Technologies company and premier sponsor at LabAutomation 2008, will present a workshop entitled 'Controlled environments in Laboratory Automation' on 28th January 2008 at this important meeting. Lunch will be provided for all attendees.

Environmental control is critical to successful automation of a variety of biological and biochemical applications. Requirements for systems can range from low complexity configurations for compound management in ambient or low temperature chambers with dust protection and low humidity, to sophisticated cell culture environments demanding sterility, higher temperatures and a controlled environment.

The workshop will guide attendees through a variety of approaches Velocity11 has taken to protect its customers' valuable reagents, cells, and compounds. Working with liquid handling stations, workstations, and integrated systems, attendees will see how environmental control can be achieved by integrating with precisely controlled sub-units such as dedicated incubators and compound storage systems or by controlling the environment of entire systems.

Visitors to Booth 327 will be able to find out more about how Velocity11's new environmental control technology option for its BioCel automation platform ensures compound integrity by creating a low humidity environment with nitrogen gas, reducing DMSO water absorption. For cell-based assays, contamination on the BioCel system is minimized with a Class 100 HEPA or ULPA filtered environment. Additional humidity and temperature control maintains an environment for optimal cell growth.

Since 1999, Velocity11 has combined innovative engineering with high standards of quality and customer service, to design and manufacture flexible high-performance automation systems and instruments for applications that include medium to high throughput screening of cell-based and enzyme assays, ELISA, plasmid and sequencing preparation, PCR clean-up, solubility, and more.

SOURCE: Velocity11