HybStation

HybStation - The Proven, Turnkey Solution to Hybridization Challenges

If you need highly reproducible and sensitive microarray hybridizations while eliminating the intense labor and guesswork of traditional manual methods, use the Digilab HybStation. You'll also 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.
• Sample loading using standard laboratory pipettes and disposable tips.
• Ability to program and run multiple protocols.
• Onboard microprocessor with LCD touch screen increases your research flexibility by allowing you to define, edit and store individual methods; Methods Editor software for your PC also available.
• Gentle and consistent agitation enhances kinetics and removes "edge effects" maximizing hybridization (ensures that the target equally addresses all probes on the array).
• The Hyb 12 has 6 different chambers, each chamber taking 2 slides and allowing different probes.
• Minimizes handling of microarrays, substantially reducing human error (better control over the experimental variables, increased reproducibility).
• Programmable temperature control allows for stepwise annealing of probes based on GC content, resulting in improved hybridization specificity more reliable data.
• Easy hybridization set-up with the built-in touch screen and modular units. Unlike the manual cover slip method, the success of the hybridization does not depend on individual skills or competency levels.
• Specialized reagents precisely manufactured to maximize probe attachment and minimize background.

Design features

• Internal Pentium processor and operating system with touch screen programming for standalone operation.
• Up to 8 HybStations can be networked together and controlled from a single PC, allowing the user to process 96 slides in a single run for high throughput operation.
• Advanced technology heating/cooling elements with a temperature range from 4°C to 99°C.
• 6 independently controlled thermal modules with the ability to program and run multiple protocols simultaneously.
• 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.
• Two programmable waste bottles to allow the user to segregate solutions as necessary.