Anagnostec is now offering the Run-it-Box, a kit that contains all the required consumables for sample preparation and provides access to full Saramis functionality.
More and more large laboratories are identifying microorganisms by means of Maldi-Tof mass spectrometry because of the speed, ease of handling and accuracy of the technique.
However, small and medium-sized labs have been hesitant due to the need for substantial financial investment into a mass spectrometer instrument.
Anagnostec's Run-it-Box requires no investment into instrumentation at all.
It is designed to allow sample preparation to be performed and microorganisms to be identified by any laboratory.
Microbial samples transferred onto Maldi targets are sent by courier to an Anagnostec partner laboratory (Star) for measurement, during which the Maldi instrument is directly connected, via a secure VPN internet connection, with the sender's onsite Saramis installation.
Box users are able to call upon the complete range of functions that the Saramis solutions offer as well as on the Superspectra and Referencespectra databases.
'For laboratories with a low or medium throughput of samples, Maldi-Tof MS-based identification of microorganisms has, to date, not been viable, but our decentralised network system changes that completely,' said Stefan Sauermann, chief executive of Anagnostec.
'Laboratories everywhere are now able to perform this identification technique,' he added.
