BioArgos: a fully automated blood culture system

Versatile, fully automated, microfluidic cell culture system.

There is increasing demand for automated and quantitative cell culture technology, driven both by the intense activity in stem cell biology and by the emergence of systems biology. We built a fully automated cell culture screening system based on a microfluidic chip that creates arbitrary culture media formulations in 96 independent culture chambers and maintains cell viability for weeks. Indiv...

A fully automated serum electrophoresis system.

This report summarizes an evaluation of the fully automated Olympus Hite System (AHS, Olympus, D-2000 Hamburg) for serum protein fractionation. The precision thereof exceeded that of the semi-manually processed Multiphorese System II MS 755 (Vogel, D-6300 Giessen). It proved to be rapid and easy to maintain. A comparison of the albumin values obtained by AHS and Beckman immunochemistry system s...

Miniaturized Mass-Spectrometry-Based Analysis System for Fully Automated Examination of Conditioned Cell Culture Media

We present a fully automated setup for performing in-line mass spectrometry (MS) analysis of conditioned media in cell cultures, in particular focusing on the peptides therein. The goal is to assess peptides secreted by cells in different culture conditions. The developed system is compatible with MS as analytical technique, as this is one of the most powerful analysis methods for peptide detec...

ASTRE: Towards a Fully Automated Program Transformation System

DUCS - A Fully Automated Code and Documentation Distribution System ?

The Distributed Update Control System (DUCS) is a code distribution system developed, for the SLD collaboration to distribute code, documentation and news items between remote collaborators and SLAC. The system runs on both VM and VMS systems and is currently running at a total of 18 sites on two different continents, using both BITNET and DECNET connections. Software updates and news items can...