Thermo LabSystems announces that Nautilus 2001 release 2 (R2), a 'highly significant' new version incorporating advanced plate handling functionality, began shipping in August
With this enhancement, Thermo LabSystems claims Nautilus brings to the market new levels of sample traceability, user empowerment and instrument integration.
Nautilus now handles the filling of microtiter plates (from 96 and 384 wells) to micro-arrays (up to 82,944 spots).
Plate fill orders and patterns can be defined using a simple graphical user interface, and child plates, and their eventual results can be traced back through parental generations.
Plates are visible in the Nautilus Explorer interface with child plates and their wells displayed beneath them in the hierarchy.
Some of the highlights of the new plate handling functionality include the following: Plate property sheets: detail information about the plate, including the aliquots that have been loaded on to it.
The plate pedigree and associated actions are fully recorded allowing the user to see the plate's complete chain of custody.
Plate workflows: are used to automate decisions and actions throughout a plate's lifecycle.
This permits a full work action and decision tree process to be built, formatted against user project requirements. Using the Plate actions features, the user can easily define how to handle replication, splitting, compositing and probing plates within the system.
Nautilus automates Result entry for plates through integration with the instrument in use.
Results may be entered based on plate position or aliquot reference.
The system features advanced instrument control mapping commands, which deal with plate login and plate result entry.
This is one of the most powerful features of the new version and a major area of productivity gain when using Nautilus.
Nautilus 2001 R2 is validated against Oracle 8.1.7 (8i), giving customers the opportunity to take advantage of new Oracle 8i features not found in previous versions.
