Bio-Rad Automates PCR Detection

Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the availability of the CFX automation system for walk-away, high-throughput quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) on its CFX96 and CFX384 real-time PCR detection systems.

“The time needed to run multiple PCR plates is one of the major bottlenecks in generating real-time PCR data,” said Richard Kurtz, marketing manager, Amplification, Bio Rad Laboratories. “The CFX automation platform eliminates the need for a researcher to be present to load the PCR plate and start each run individually. Now all they need to do is load the stacker, setup the runs, and walk away.”

The CFX automation system is equipped with a benchtop plate handler with the capacity to load up to twenty 384-well plates or 7,680 samples at a time on the CFX384 system, facilitating workflow automation, generation of large volumes of data, and rapid analysis of that data.

Automation control software manages the configuration and operation of the CFX automation system with one CFX96 or CFX384 real-time PCR detection system, ensuring maximum productivity. Researchers can use the automation control software to define PCR protocols for multiple experiments at once, enabling either the same protocol to be applied across each plate or different protocols for each plate.

Upon run completion, users can analyze data when and where they want by choosing to be sent an email notification with an attached data file. They can also request an automatically generated PDF report in addition to the data file.