Visual Protocol Designer
(VPD)
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Stratedigm is reinventing the way you design your automation experiments. With CellCapTure’s optional patent Visual Protocol Designer (VPD), users can easily create complex tasks and protocols to fully automate their experiments to their exact specifications by utilizing a visual, drag-and-drop system.
VPD gives even more power to your A600 HTAS, while maintaining simplicity. It all comes together with Stratedigm’s fully integrated Acquisition and Analysis software, CellCapTure. Scientists and researchers can utilize well-to-well pipetting, enhanced mixing, recording, incubating, decanting, automated compensation, centrifugation, and more all without any programming knowledge.
Additionally, the GUI-based autonomous engine perceptively decides the next step based on user data. These advanced features enable VPD to accelerate research in drug discovery, pathogen screening, cancer therapeutics, and precision medicine by a hundred-fold, ushering in a new era of Predictive Cytometry.
U.S. Patent No. 10338897B2
Acquisition Blocks
Uber Comp – Automatically run compensation that optimizes detector settings for the protocol without user intervention.
Record – Record the selected wells and tailor various settings, including injection speed and probe sample height, to meet your exact experimental needs.
Liquid Handling Blocks
Probe Wash Options – Configure the settings for when and how probes are washed during the protocol.
Mixing – Using the A600 HTAS, mix the selected wells with options such as volume, speed, and mix count.
Add Reagent – Add reagent to the selected wells from a source such as the reagent rack or the A640 CPM.
Well to Well Pipette – Pipette sample from wells in a source row to the selected wells.
Free Pipette – Pipette sample from a source well into the selected wells.
Decant – Remove volume from the selected wells from a desired height.
Dilute – Add volume from the selected source such as an A640 into the selected wells.
Incubation and Centrifugation Blocks
Temperature Control – Specify the temperature to be maintained by the A600 HTAS for the active plate.
Incubate – Adjust the incubation time for the current plate.
Centrifuge – Transfer the current plate to the centrifuge and spin it for a specified time and speed.
Cell Incubator Control – Set the properties of the Cell Incubator
Put Into Cell Incubator – Put the current plate into the Cell Incubator.
Get From Cell Incubator – Get a plate from the Cell Incubator
Instrument Blocks
Refill – Refill the instrument’s sheath tank.
Clean – Clean the instrument.
Debubble – Clear bubbles from the flow cell.
Filter Clean – Clean the instrument’s 0.2 um filter to remove trapped air in the filter.
Initialize – Prime the instrument with fluid so it is ready to acquire sample.
Unclog – Unclog the line the samples travel through.
Sterilize – Clean the lines and probes with bleach.
Machine Learning Blocks
Row Execution – Set how many times to repeat the selected row.
Condition – Create custom conditional statements that can be used to execute blocks following it if the condition is true.
Reference – Creates a reference point for other blocks to refer to as a starting point.
Variable – Create an element that has a value that other blocks can use throughout the protocol.