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2. General Description

2.1 Introduction

June 2002 Operating Manual for GENios, GENios FL, and GENios Plus No: I 112 904 Rev No: 1.1
The GENios instruments are fully automatic, computer controlled microplate
readers for measuring samples in a microplate. The instruments fulfill the
requirements for numerous fluorescence, absorbance and glow type
luminescence applications in research and routine investigations.
The GENios FL instrument does not have absorbance or glow type
luminescence measurement capabilities.
The GENios Reader offers fluorescence, absorbance, and glow type
luminescence and can be used with 384, 96, 24, 12 or 6 well microplates.
The GENios FL Reader offers fluorescence top measurement with 384, 96, 24,
12 or 6 wells.
The GENios Plus Reader offers glow type luminescence, absorbance and
fluorescence with high sensitivity especially in the UV range and the capability of
measuring fluorescence in 1536 well plates.
The filters are arranged in filter slides; four excitation filters and four emission
filters respectively. The instrument has no on-board software and is exclusively
controlled via an external computer using Windows format.
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