What Types Of Liquid Transfer Are Supported - Labcyte Echo 520 User Manual

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What types of liquid transfer are supported?

The Echo liquid handler supports a variety of simple to complex microplate
liquid transfer protocols. The bundled software program allows a user to
set up the following types of protocol transfers:
Source (Src)
Microplate
384-well
384-well
384-well
384-well
1536-well
1536-well
1536-well
1 Destacking: transferring liquid from a single source (src) plate to several
destination (dest) plates
2 Stacking: transferring liquid from several source plates to a single destination
plate
Liquid transfer can be tailored to the user's specific requirements.
Variables that are user selectable or definable include the following:
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These fluid transfer attributes and choices are defined in Chapter 5.
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Table 1.1 Liquid transfer types
Destination
(Dest)
Microplate
96-well
384-well
1536-well
3456-well
96-well
384-well
1536-well
Source microplate type (from the list of qualified plates)
User-definable destination microplate or surface
Transfer type (for example, interleaved or quadrant 384-well to
96-well transfers)
Transfer volume
Number of copies (how many times the transfer protocol is executed)
Transfer map specifying exactly which wells, or regions of wells, will
be transferred
Predefined DMSO/water concentration maps
Transfer map type
(full or partial)
1
destacking quadrant
(4 regions from 1 src plate
to 4 dest plates)
standard (1 src plate to 1 dest plate)
2
stacking quadrant
(4 src plates to 4 regions
on 1 dest plate)
stacking quadrant
(9 src plates to 9 regions
on 1 dest plate)
destacking quadrant
(16 regions from 1 src plate
to 16 dest plates)
destacking quadrant
(4 regions from 1 src plate
to 4 dest plates)
standard (1 src plate to 1 dest plate)
destacking interleaved
(2x2, or every other
dest well)
stacking interleaved
(2x2, or every other
dest well)
stacking interleaved
(3x3, or every third dest
well)
destacking interleaved
(4x4, or every fourth
dest well)
destacking interleaved
(2x2, or every other
dest well)