Alpha Innotech has announced the release of the Alphaimager Mini, a compact imaging system for fluorescent and colorimetric gels.
The system is designed to meet the needs and budgets of users who require an economical and compact imaging system with a scientific grade camera for downstream quantitative analysis.
The Alphaimager Mini's camera offers 1.3 million pixels and a zoom lens in addition to a USB connection for fast data transfer.
Alphasnap acquisition software navigates users through the process of acquiring an image.
Alphasnap software enables scientists to customise exposure times for images, print to any digital- or Windows-compatible printer and save images in several industry-standard file formats for further downstream processing and analysis.
The launch of the Alphaimager Mini incorporates the Image-250, a compact cabinet that offers a UV-shielded viewport to see samples within the dark enclosure while the UV source is on, a large pull-up door for sample access, and compact design requiring less than 11 x 14ins of bench space.
Applications of the Alphaimager Mini include the variety of UV fluorescent labels commonly used in stained DNA and protein gels, such as Ethidium Bromide, SYBR Green, SYBR Safe and Hoechst Blue.
With the addition of a white light illumination table, the Alphaimager Mini can also image white light applications such as Coomassie and silver-stained protein gels.
Images can be printed directly, or exported for analysis into Alphaview standalone analysis software (not included).
