The Sample Rail enables fully automated sample preparation and delivery for 24-hour, hands-off, high-throughput NMR operation
Bruker BioSpin introduced the SampleRail for NMR at Drug Discovery Technology 2004.
The Sample Rail enables fully automated sample preparation and delivery for 24-hour, hands-off, high-throughput NMR operation.
The system interfaces with a liquid handling robot, which prepares the samples in NMR tubes and then transports them on a rail system to the magnet.
The liquid handler is synchronized with the NMR experiments for just-in-time sample preparation, ideal for unstable samples requiring analysis immediately after preparation.
The SampleRail increases the utility of NMR in various high-throughput applications such as metabonomics, SAR (structure activity relations) by NMR, protein-ligand binding detection and other drug discovery methods.
The SampleRail is compatible with all Bruker BioSpin Avance NMR spectrometers, and is controlled by Bruker's SampleTrack laboratory information management system software.
"We have seen dramatic productivity results with this new SampleRail," commented Werner Maas, vice president of research and development at Bruker BioSpin.
"In addition to increased throughput during the course of the day, it has freed up manpower for other important work."
