Readers are compatible with popular software and robotic system allowing any instrument that uses microplates to have automated stacking capability
Molecular Devices has announced the addition of Zymark's iLink compatibility for Molecular Devices's Analyst GT and Gemini EM, two 'next-generation' microplate readers used in drug discovery and life science research applications. Analyst GT multimode reader is the newest addition to the Analyst family and offers high-throughput screening laboratories significant improvements in read-time and sensitivity in every plate format and every detection mode.
Gemini EM fluorescence microplate reader adds many capabilities to the Gemini XS, allowing it to address the fast-growing area of cell-based fluorescence applications.
Stephen Oldfield, vice president of marketing at Molecular Devices, noted: "The new Analyst GT and Gemini EM systems build on the success of our established Analyst and Gemini families.
GT utilises a new activeXsuite software and EM a new version of SoftMax Pro which have aided Zymark in rapidly integrating on their robotic systems using their iLink software." Zymark's iLink is a new 'point and shoot' software interface between laboratory instruments and Zymark's Twister II robot which dramatically simplifies running automated instrument protocols.
With this new software, any instrument that uses microplates can have automated stacking capability added to it by connecting the Twister II.
The iLink software extends the power of automation to individual instruments, such as readers and washers, with the flexibility to pass plates through several instruments, building to a powerful, integrated system.
Zymark's Twister II is the standard in the industry for handling microplates.
Whether it is used as a stand-alone stacker or as the hub of a mini-system, Twister II can move up to 400 plates with a telescoping arm and rotating wrist for flexibility to position plates in virtually all readers, washers, and liquid handlers.
The Twister II delivers more efficient benchtop storage of plates than any other laboratory microplate handler does.
Commenting on the addition of these two new products, Mark Roskey, executive vice president of marketing at Zymark, noted: "iLink brings the power of automation into the hands of the everyday scientist.
Researchers using laboratory instruments manually can finally be free of the task of feeding microplates to instrumentation, and become an even more highly valued resource for their company." The new software interfaces are being added to the library of Molecular Devices instruments that are compatible with iLink and Twister II, including the SpectraMax series, Gemini XS, and Analyst HT readers, together with the Embla washer and AquaMax dispenser.
