Dear Sam We have recently bought a Gryphon LCP to accommodate routine seeding experiments. We are actually using the LCP module to dispense the seed stocks. We had never encountered problems with calibration and our system is very reliable and running stable. I fully agree with Rogers’ statement. HTH Cheers Jerome
On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Roger Rowlett wrote: > We have a Crystal Gryphon and it works fine for sitting drop plates. We > usually set 200+200 nL drops for screens, but it can of course dispense much > larger volumes if required. It's affordable and easy to maintain, not much in > the way of consumables required. The software is very easy to use, and pretty > adaptable to non-standard protocols. I don't have the LCP attachment, but > have seen it demonstrated twice. > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________ > Roger S. Rowlett > Gordon & Dorothy Kline Professor > Department of Chemistry > Colgate University > 13 Oak Drive > Hamilton, NY 13346 > > tel: (315)-228-7245 > ofc: (315)-228-7395 > fax: (315)-228-7935 > email: rrowl...@colgate.edu > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Sam Jimmeson <samjimme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello ccp4BBers, > Our lab is thinking about trying to purchase a crystallization robot. We > need to be able to do LCP in addition to sitting drop experiments. Does > anyone have experience with the NT8 robot from formulatrix? The other two > robots I am aware of are the LCP Mosquito from TTP and the LCP Gryphon from > ARI. Does anyone have any experiences they could share with me about these > instruments? Feel free to email off list if you want. > Thanks! > -Sam > _______________________________ Jérôme Basquin Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Structural Cell Biology Department Crystallization and automation platform manager Am Klopferspitz 18 D-82152 Martinsried Germany Tel : +49 (89) 85 78 36 29 basq...@biochem.mpg.de
