Sciclone ALH 3000 Caliper Advanced Liquid Handler

The Biotage / Caliper / Zymark Sciclone ALH 3000 Advanced Liquid Handler from Caliper Life Sciences brings together over 25 years of laboratory automation expertise to provide you a more productive answer for genomic, proteomic, and drug screening applications. Sciclone provides any lab a broad range of highly-accurate and precise liquid handling functions in a versatile, open-design format that adapts to almost any protocol. Each Sciclone is configured with your choice of liquid handling functionality and on-deck accessories, and is field reconfigurable to adapt as your research progresses.

No other liquid handler can match the Sciclone for precision and flexibility in pipetting across 96, 384 and 1536 microplate formats. Choose from three pipetting heads covering a volume range from 100 nL to 200 µL. Leveraging our unique EZ-Swap head design, each pipetting head can easily be exchanged by end users in as little as a few minutes with no re-teaching or realignment. The 96 channel ALH-HV pipetting head utilizes Caliper certified disposable tips and supports transfer volumes up to 200 µL. It also possesses the unique ability to attach individual rows or columns of tips and therefore carry out row-wise and column-wise serial dilutions. The 384 channel ALH-LV pipetting head supports transfer volumes from 0.5 - 25.0 µL and using our proprietary swap-on-the fly pipetting arrays, including 96, 384 and 384/1536 fixed 96 or 384 mandrel arrays for use with low volume (25 µL) disposable tips, or custom pin tools. This unique capability enables user to swap between 96 and 384 pipetting, as well as fixed cannula or disposable tips, all within a single uninterrupted protocol. When used with mandrel arrays, the ALH-LV provides the same ability to attach individual rows of tips as the ALH-HV head, enabling fast and efficient serial dilutions in a 384 well format.

With it’s unique open and modular design and wide range of pipetting options and accessories, the Sciclone is easily configured with the best combination of pipetting options and accessories to perfectly meet the needs of any given application. It’s highly adaptive nature enables it to be re-fitted quickly and easily to support multiple applications to meet changing needs. While a highly capable standalone workstation, the Sciclone is also clearly designed with equipment integration and scalability in mind. That’s why the Sciclone is open on all four sides to provide maximum flexibility from a systems integration standpoint. With our iBLOX modular table technology, we have successfully extended the modularity of the Sciclone to the systems level create very flexible, high throughput systems in a very small footprint.