Cost efficiency

The schuett Picking-Tool is a handheld device for manually transferring cell colonies to multiwell plates as well as a manually operated inoculating device. Unerring picking, i.e. for specific individual colonies:

l high working efficiency compared to using toothpicks
l low-cost version of a picking robot
l immediate intuitive operation
l ergonomically balanced handling
l minimized operator fatigue

Simultaneously 24 clones may be transferred to the buffer solution (12 when using the 96 well plates).

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Description

Compared to individually picking of single colonies from a Petri dish and transferring them to the Multiwell plate with a toothpick, the schuett may pick up to 24 colonies in a row and transfer them all at the same time to the multiwell plate (12 when using the 96 well plates).

This highly increases the efficiency of the process as well as the throughput.

Sterile disposable combs are used for picking cell colonies, which allow for serial inoculation in all standard multiwell plates (96-/384-size). It takes approx. 15 minutes to inoculate a 384er-size multiwell plate.

Quick screens in-between are possible. No setup time required as compared with a picking robot. The PickMaxX is useful in bridging down-time (servicing) of a picking robot.