Opentrons

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Opentrons is an open source liquid handling robot and can be used by life scientists to manipulate small volumes of liquids for the purpose of undertaking biochemical reactions. The instrument is used primarily by researchers and scientists interested in DIY biology but is increasingly being used by other biologists.[1] They are produced by Opentrons Labworks.

Products[]

  • OT-1: The OpenTrons OT-1 was the result of a crowd funding campaign on the Kickstarter platform and was released in 2015 for $2,000.[2][3] The release of the OT-1 marked the first commercial open source liquid handling robot in the life science industry.
  • OT-2: The OpenTrons OT-2 was released in 2018 and has seen utilization as one of the open source tools that researchers are leveraging in the fight against COVID-19.[4][5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ May, Mike (2019-05-20). "A DIY approach to automating your lab". Nature. 569 (7757): 587–588. Bibcode:2019Natur.569..587M. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-01590-z. PMID 31110319.
  2. ^ "This Robot Could Make Creating New Life Forms As Easy As Coding An App". Wired. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  3. ^ "DIYBio Comes of Age". Wired. 2014-11-07. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  4. ^ Walker, Kenneth T.; Donora, Matthew; Thomas, Anthony; Phillips, Alexander James; Ramgoolam, Krishma; Pilch, Kjara S; Oberacker, Phil; Jurkowski, Tomasz Piotr; Gosman, Rares Marius; Fleiss, Aubin; Perkins, Alex; MacKenzie, Neil; Zuckerman, Mark; Danovi, Davide; Steiner, Helene; Meany, Thomas (2020). "CONTAIN:An open-source shipping container laboratory optimised for automated COVID-19 diagnostics". doi:10.1101/2020.05.20.106625. S2CID 218859877. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ Villanueva-Cañas, José Luis; Gonzalez-Roca, Eva; Unanue, Aitor Gastaminza; Titos, Esther; Martínez Yoldi, Miguel Julián; Vergara Gómez, Andrea; Puig Butillé, Joan Antón (2020). "ROBOCOV: An affordable open-source robotic platform for SARS-CoV-2 testing by RT-qPCR". doi:10.1101/2020.06.11.140285. S2CID 219689351. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Maia Chagas, Andre; Molloy, Jennifer C.; Prieto-Godino, Lucia L.; Baden, Tom (2020). "Leveraging open hardware to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems". PLOS Biology. 18 (4): e3000730. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000730. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 7182255. PMID 32330124.
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