High Content Screening Cytometer

The triple laser Acumen ^eX3 microplate cytometer can be equipped with up to three lasers providing light at wavelengths of 405, 488 and 633 nm. This excitation wavelength range is similar to that of white light source instrumentation and increases the variety of fluorescent reagents compatible with the system. The system simplifies assay transfer from development to screening laboratories by delivering the object recognition of CCD imagers combined with the read times of bulk fluorescence readers. Software offers the flexibility of exporting TIFF images which closely match those captured using a 20× microscope objective for subsequent analysis by third party image analysis software. This facilitates seamless transfer from assay development on microscope-based CCD imagers to assay screening with minimal changes to experimental protocols.