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SelecT
 
SelecT fully automates manual cell culture methods, improving quality of cellular reagents and laboratory productivity
Multiple cell line &  assay-ready plate production - SelecT
SelecT™ is the leading automated cell culture system for multiple cell-lines and assay-ready plate production, with over 40 installations world-wide. It improves the quality and availability of cellular reagents and fully automates manual cell culture methods.
  Cell lines are maintained and expanded in T-175 format flasks. The system design ensures that there is no cross contamination even when many cell lines are cultured in parallel. Cells can be harvested, counted and seeded without operator intervention - at any time, day or night, to help optimise screening productivity.
 
  SelecT automates:
 
  • Expansion and maintenance of multiple cell lines
  • Sub-culturing
  • Cell seeding
  • Transient transfection
  • Harvesting
  • Incubation of up to 182 T-flasks and up to 420 plates
  • Cell counting and viability measurement
  • Plating into 96, 384 and 1536-well plates
  SelecT offers:
 
  • Easy protocol editing and scheduling of tasks
  • Total flexibility in batch size and numbers of cell lines
  • Full audit trail security via bar code tracking of flasks and plates
  • Continuous, unattended operation overnight or at the weekend to enable screening 5 days a week
  • Choice of standard labware - flasks and plates
  • Compact footprint - 2m x 2.7m (approx 6' 6'' x 9')
  • Processing compatibility with single, Triple and HYPERFlasks (10 layer) in a single platform
  • Optional fully integrated, multi-format cell dispenser (96, 384, 1536-well plates)
  SelecT was designed by TAP with a consortium of 6 major pharmaceutical companies - GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca and Parke-Davis (now Pfizer). Today it is used to supply consistent, high quality cells in different plate formats at multiple locations within the majority of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, where it facilitates assay development and transferability of protocols between sites.
  Applications include:
 
  • High throughput screening
  • Assay development
  • Lead optimisation
  For more information on SelecT:
  Get more detail on the systems' Key Applications
  Discuss your requirements with Ian Ransome, Sales Director
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