The Automation Partnership (TAP) has begun installations of its Compact Select advanced plating module (APM) to enable researchers to produce quality cell plates, ready for use in transport assays.
Compact APM has been specially designed to maintain cells in 'insert well' transport assay plates, ensuring researchers benefit from access to consistent quality cells for assay development, cell-based screening and toxicity studies.
The system also supports maintenance of cells and media exchange in six-well and 24-well plate formats.
The APM extends the functionality of Compact Select with a flexible plating system to accommodate a mix of different plates for cell dispensing and media exchange in standard and 'insert well' plates.
This approach allows scientists to save time by automating plate-based applications requiring labour-intensive feeding regimes.
Compact APM's incubator, with its control of temperature, CO2 and humidity and Selfeeder liquid-handling unit, reduces damage to cell layers, ensuring cell lines such as HEK and CHO, stem cells and cells for transport assays (including Caco-2 and MDCK) can be cultured to produce more consistent assays.
The Selfeeder media exchange unit allows Compact APM to provide scheduled media changes on cells seeded in plates.
Linked sequences of protocols, including expansion, plating and maintenance, can be set up and run for weeks to ensure production of consistent cell plates without the need for time-consuming, error-prone manual media changes.
