The SelecT system for US cell research

The Automation Partnership (TAP), automation manufacturer for life science applications, has had two of its SelecT automated systems for cell culture sited at the world's largest biological resource centre, the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC).

SelecT, an innovative automated system for unattended culturing of multiple cell-lines and assay-ready plate generation, is used by more than 30 pharma and biotech companies internationally. The SelecT systems will be utilised at the ATCC to increase cell culturing productivity of over one thousand different mammalian cell lines.

Each SelecT system at the ATCC has the capacity to culture many cell lines in parallel without risk of cross contamination. The specially developed, negative pressure, laminar airflow processing area is optimised to ensure aseptic processing of each individual cell line according to its specific requirements. The system uses barcodes to record all the processing steps performed on each cell line and individual flask to verify that the right cells are delivered to the right place at the right time.

Tim Ward, cell culture business unit director at TAP, said: 'We are delighted to see our SelecT systems being used at such a prestigious cell culture facility as the ATCC. This is the largest investment in production equipment the ATCC has ever made.'