plater: Read, Tidy, and Display Data from Microtiter Plates

Measuring Caenorhabditis elegans Life Span in 96 Well Microtiter Plates

Lifespan is a biological process regulated by several genetic pathways. One strategy to investigate the biology of aging is to study animals that harbor mutations in components of age-regulatory pathways. If these mutations perturb the function of the age-regulatory pathway and therefore alter the lifespan of the entire organism, they provide important mechanistic insights. Another strategy to ...

High-throughput measurement of protein stability in microtiter plates.

The direct determination of protein stability at high throughput has applications in proteomics, directed evolution, and formulation. Each application places different requirements on the accuracy of stability or transition midpoint determination. The measurement of protein stability by chemical denaturation has been previously performed at medium throughput and high accuracy using autotitratin...

Cavity-Enhanced Immunoassay Measurements in Microtiter Plates Using BBCEAS.

We report on the first detailed use of broadband cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy (BBCEAS) as a detection system for immunoassay. A vertical R ≥ 0.99 optical cavity was integrated with a motorized XY stage, which functioned as a receptacle for 96-well microtiter plates. The custom-built cavity enhanced microplate reader was used to make measurements on a commercially available osteocalci...

Enzymatic microRNA detection in microtiter plates with DNA dendrimers.

Adaptation of dinitrosalicylic acid method to microtiter plates

A microtiter plate adaptation of the well-known dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) colorimetric method, for measurement of reducing sugars, is described. This method allows a substantial volume reduction of the reagents and a rapid analysis of a large number of samples, having an economic cost benefit and a positive impact on the environment. Therefore, it is well suited as an high-throughput techniqu...