Sample storage for smaller laboratories
REMP used the show to exhibit its recently launched Small-Size Store (SSS) technology, a fully automated sample storage and retrieval system that provides smaller laboratories (e.g. those storing only a few thousand samples), with the type of facility previously reserved for larger-scale laboratories.
REMP used the show to exhibit its recently launched Small-Size Store (SSS) technology, a fully automated sample storage and retrieval system that provides smaller laboratories (e.g. those storing only a few thousand samples), with the type of facility previously reserved for larger-scale laboratories.
Able to operate as a stand-alone unit or to be integrated into a robotic system within a storage environment down to -20°C, the system is specifically designed for use with REMP's Tube Technology consumables, featuring 2D data matrix, and can store up to 1000 REMP 384 storage tube racks, 815 REMP 96 racks (300) or 475 REMP 96 racks (900). Up to three units can be linked together to build a larger storage cluster in the event of a library outgrowing the capacity of a single unit.
Tubes can be cherry-picked at any time, but the destination tube rack will remain within the storage environment until requested by the user or master control system. The use of consumables is said to 'virtually eliminate the risk of sample degradation in multiple freeze-thaw cycles by providing the flexibility of random, rapid and individual selection and arrangement of only need samples'. They also eliminate the risk of cross-contamination and dilution by allowing rapid transfer between racks.
Two rear service doors give access to the system and allow easy removal of all storage plates in the event of a cooling unit failure.
The SSS employs the 'proven concepts' used in larger REMP storage systems, employed by companies including Pfizer, with whom it developed its first Bio Sample Store, and is therefore compatible with REMP sample management software packages.