Dear all -
Under the BIOXHIT home page,
http://www.bioxhit.org
you can navigate to "Section 1" or "HTP Crystallization",
or simply follow the link below:
http://icarus.embl-hamburg.de/bioxhit/bioXHITSection1.jsp
It has quite a lot of data on what people use, available facilities,
and testing of some popular robots.
If any lab/facility wants to contribute data to that resource please
get in contact with me.
My best regards, Tassos
On 11 Jan 2008, at 19:25, Shirley Roberts wrote:
I sent this personal reply on wednesday to Madhavi Nalam's original
question.
In the light of recent comments I'm posting it to the BB to support
TTP labtech and Mosquito!
Some of the points have been made by others now, excuse the repeats!
We at YSBL have been very happy with our mosquito. We use it to
setup sitting drops with the MRC Wilden plate, this can be for
screening or optimisation (not always necessary to go to 24-well
format). You can also setup hanging drops, this can work better if
detergents are involved. A new lid has just been released from TTP
that costs £2.50 and takes 3 drops per well but we havn't tried
this yet. You will need another robot (or multichannel pipette) for
transfering the screen solutions.We use the hydra from alpha-helix
ltd with flexible needles so hard to break.
The phoenix robot does both jobs and seems popular. The Douglas
robot has been mentioned, the Cartesian is the other main robot in
use but I don't have any personal experience of it, I've heard it
is quite high maintenance.
Good luck with your purchase!
Shirley Roberts<roberts.vcf>
