Novel Technologies Advance Drug Discovery and Disease Research Solutions at SLAS2020

PerkinElmer, Inc. has developed two new workstations and a high content screening system at SLAS2020 in San Diego, CA. All three technologies, outlined below, automate workflows in order to advance disease research and drug discovery.

• JANUS® G3 Blood iQ™ Workstation: designed for biobanking workflows this technology offers front end reformatting of plasma and buffy coat layers from centrifuged blood tubes, enabling highly reproducible, downstream genetic analysis.

• Sciclone® G3 NGSx HT Workstation: simplifies the miniaturization of NGS library prep. Coupled with a new NEXTFLEX® Rapid XP DNA-seq kit, this library preparation workflow enables researchers to increase their NGS throughput while decreasing their cost per reaction.

• Opera Phenix® Plus High Content Screening System: engineered for fast response analysis of physiologically relevant model systems, this enhancement to PerkinElmer’s high content imaging platform adds fast frame rate image capture for assays. It also offers an optional liquid handling module to enable assays like Ca2+ flux. The Opera Phenix Plus system can be used with two cell cultures, primary cells, 3D organoids, spheroids and microtissues.