TecanGenesis

Tecan Genesis RMP 200
Model	Robotic Microplate Platform
Sub-category	Defunct
Status	Dismantled
Training requirement	NA
ACnode	NA
Owner	Biohackers
Origin	Donation
Location	NA
Maintainers	Tolland, Sam Thompson Property "Maintainers" (as page type) with input value "User:Tolland|Tolland]], [[User:Samb1|Sam Thompson" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.

"The Genesis RMP is intended for fully automated processing of 96-well microplate based ELISA (Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay) and ELISA-like tests, starting from sample pipetting and ending with result reading."

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liquid dispensing

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TECAN GENESIS

This is a liquid handling robotics platform kindly donated to us by Alan Sawyer of Paratope.

The hardware and software is no longer supported, (and the gui is pretty horrible, (win$ only) so the plan is to understand the wire protocol so we can control is from a raspberry pi.

TecanWireProtocolProject

It was primarily used in monoclonal antibody production but can be used for any kind of high throughput assay and development work possibly in non biotech type applications too. There is also the potential to adapt it further with other manipulators to make use of the arms 3 axis of motion and relatively large platform working area.

Here's the front of the robot:

and a look at the side panel:

The top control panel has an RS232 DB25 port plus a few CANbus DB9 ports:

The lower panel has a few other control ports of a different format, I need to lean more about these:

Next step is to read the manuals, installing software on a spare system (apparently needs to be Windows NT/2000 :( lol) and seeing if it will run.