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AUTOMATED, ULTRA-FAST COLONY PICKING

COMPACTULTRA–FASTINTUITIVE

The Stinger is the new automated single colony picker by Singer Instruments. The Stinger expands the functionality of the Singer ROTOR HDA robot by enabling the re-arraying of specific individual colonies of interest from high-density agar plates and multi-well dishes. As an automated modular accessory for the ROTOR HDA, The Stinger allows for easy, ultra-fast duplication and rearrangement of high-density library arrays of yeast, other fungi, bacteria and algae.

The Stinger is designed for the picking and spotting of user-specified colonies from high-density arrays onto solid agars at densities of 96, 192, 384, 768 and 1536. It also spots colonies into liquid culture at 96 and 384-density. Automated and ultra-fast pinning by The Stinger allows for the easy and accurate rearrangement and generation of microbial libraries.

WHAT IS IT?

WHAT DOES IT DO? “IT’S A HUGE

IMPROVEMENT FROM DOING IT MANUALLY, PLUS THE ACCURACY GAINED IS VITAL.”

· Gudjon Olafsson MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.


· Selectively re-array groups, or individual colonies from large microbial arrays.

· Produce custom arrays comprising of functionally related strains/mutants.

· Generate subset of library arrays to follow-up with initial screening results.

· Accurately and reliably pick colonies from high-density arrays.

· Pin large arrays of a single strain from a source library. · Quickly and easily mate specific colonies of interest from high-density arrays.

WHAT CAN I USE IT FOR?

The Stinger uses cartridges of 384 re-usable, stainless steel pins to sample yeast, other fungi, bacteria or algae from colonies grown on solid agar or in liquid culture. In conjunction with in-built ROTOR HDA software, users can select source colonies to be picked and then re-array those colonies at 96 or 384-density format. Colony selection methods are flexible; choose from importing .csv files or manually on the touchscreen software. This provides a range of easy to complete tasks, from picking a few strains of interest to rearranging entire arrays.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Stinger can pick and print colonies from microtitre plates, standard SBS trays and Singer PlusPlates. The pins and the cartridge itself are fully autoclaveable to make sterilization easy. Additional cartridges and pins can be purchased to ensure you always have spares whenever the need to pin arises!

Absolutely! The Stinger uses the intuitive ROTOR HDA software, which means that the simple, touchscreen interface can guide you through a chosen protocol or your own protocol.

· As an accessory for ROTOR HDA, The Stinger attaches easily and accurately to ROTOR HDA’s work-head with a magnetic quick-change plate. This enables it to pick colonies very rapidly via the shortest path between source and target plates.

· Thanks to the intuitive ROTOR HDA software, it takes hardly any time to learn how to operate The Stinger. You can begin picking your favourite colonies immediately!

IS IT EASY TO USE?

WHAT PLATES CAN I USE?

WHY IS IT SO FAST?


· Individually picked colonies from four separate 96-density source plates are combined onto one target plate. This example can be applied at all pinning densities of source and target plates, from 96 to 1536.

PINNING EXAMPLES

· Colonies from a 96-density plate are re-arrayed to produce customised arrangement at the same or different density.

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