High content screening reader allows for the expansion of imaging capabilities through the addition of optional hardware, such as optical sectioning, to a flexible architecture
Cellomics announced at the Society for Biomolecular Screening conference in Portland, USA, the launch of the ArrayScan VTI HCS reader, a new generation automated high content screening (HCS) platform.
The ArrayScan VTI is a modular, integrated, automated solution for drug discovery and large-scale cell biology research using fluorescent cell-based assays.
With nearly a decade of experience in developing automated high content cell analysis solutions and the largest user base behind it, the new ArrayScan VTI provides scientists performing high content screening, assay development, or basic cellular research a complete system with high sensitivity imaging capability, full control of plate scanning, open robotic integration, and integrated data management.
This instrument, combined with the complete informatics solution of Cellomics Store and vHCS Discovery Toolbox as well as the largest portfolio of BioApplications in the industry, provides the basis for what Cellomics says is the only totally integrated platform for cell-based high content screening available.
Building upon the success of the current ArrayScan HCS Reader, the VTI represents the 5th generation instrument (V) in a line of successful screening and lead optimisation tools and provides a platform for continued technology integration (TI).
The modular design of the ArrayScan VTI allows for the expansion of imaging capabilities through the addition of optional hardware, such as optical sectioning, to a flexible architecture.
This flexibility brings high content cell analysis to primary screening through the modular expansion of parallel readers.
The ArrayScan VTI is daid to be the only instrument that serves the entire early drug discovery process. Adjustable optical performance and optical mode flexibility on the ArrayScan VTI allows for high resolution imaging that can be switched to high speed or very high speed imaging on the same instrument.
