The Development of an Echo® Qualified Reagent Reservoir

To enable the transfer of large quantities of fluid using acoustic liquid handling, Labcyte is developing a companion consumable, the multi-well Reagent Reservoir (RES). This study characterizes fluid transfer from a RES prototype for volumes on the scale of nano- to microliters per destination well. Additionally, to demonstrate the combined performance capabilities of the RES and the Echo® 525, a 2-fold dilution quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay was performed.