Sample Reformatting
Chemical purification processes often require a fraction collection step. The collected fractions, in some cases multiple, often need to be split up into different formats and volumes for a wide variation of down stream processing.
In 2005 Labman Automation supplied a reformatting system for a company based in the UK with a requirement to purify a compound library containing 5 million samples!
The system, based on a two-armed Tecan RSP loads incoming tubes containing dried fractions into a dissolution unit, re-suspends each fraction with the selected solvent then re-constitutes the dissolved fractions (some multiple) into the required output format.
Main Features
- Capacity for up to 400 incoming fraction tubes
- Capacity for up to 576 output tubes
- Automatic interpretation from incoming files of the fractions per sample
- Software selectable tube formats
- 5 Selectable solvents
- Fully programmable dissolution patterns
- Sample barcode tracking
- Online needle blockage detection
- Solvent level and fume extraction management
- LIMS integration
- SMS status messaging
