Digilab - Hyb4

Digilab Hyb4 - The Personal Solution to Microarray Hybridization

If you need highly reproducible and sensitive microarray hybridizations while eliminating the intense labor and guesswork of traditional manual methods, use Digilab Hyb4. You’ll save time and money by eliminating the need to repeat failed experiments, a common problem with manual hybridization methods

Features

• Increased reproducibility through precise temperature control and sample agitation.
• Ability to program and run multiple protocols.
• Sample loading using standard laboratory pipettes and disposable tips.
• Increases research flexibility by allowing you to define, edit and store individual methods using the Methods Editor software.
• Programmable temperature control allows for stepwise annealing of probes based on their GC content, resulting in improved hybridization specificity and more reliable data.
• The 4-position Hyb4 allows 4 slides to be hybridized, while the individual ports allow independent probe introduction for each microarray.
• Minimizes handling of microarrays, substantially reducing human error (better control over the experimental variables, increased reproducibility).
• Maximize hybridization through gentle and consistent agitation that enhances kinetics and removes "edge effects." This ensures that the target equally addresses all probes on the array.
• Specialized reagents precisely manufactured to maximize probe attachment and minimize background.

Design features

• Easy to use software.
• Clear fluidic manifold and translucent tubing let the user observe correct fluid flow.
• Patented translucent slide covers that allow the user to view the hybridization surface, while preventing photobleaching of fluorescent dyes.
• Probe injection using standard laboratory pipette and disposable tips to prevent contamination between slides.
• Advanced technology heating/cooling elements with a temperature range from 4°C to 99°C.
• 2 independently controlled thermal modules with the ability to program and run multiple protocols simultaneously.
• Built-in heater block for 0.5 and 1.5 ml centrifuge tubes for convenient pre-heating of samples prior to loading.