arrayWoRx®e Biochip Reader
Features & Benefits
Flexibility for Your Applications – Today and in the Future
Biochips, dyes, and technology platforms are rapidly changing, creating a rapidly increasing number of experiment and decision possibilities. The arrayWoRxe reader is designed to be flexible and adaptable in this evolving environment.
- Polychromatic Illumination – Collect up to four wavelengths per slide from spectral ranges of UV to Near IR with our exclusive chromatic filter wheel design. Filters and/or filter wheels can be easily changed to allow complete flexibility in selecting different fluorescent dyes.
- New Chip Technologies – Different applications require unique experiments. No longer are you limited to using traditional dyes or technology. The arrayWoRxe system can scan a wide variety of technologies including beads, photolithography, tissue arrays, and protein arrays with alternative dye sets.
- High Resolution – As printing and chip technologies evolve, spots become smaller and more dense. The arrayWoRxe system provides high resolution images with optimal pixel sampling for a wide range of low to high density microarrays.
Four Color Image
Dr. Scott J. Tebbutt, Jian-Qing He & Chiaka O. Abara
McDonald Research Laboratories / iCAPTURE Centre
St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Repeatable & Reproducible Systems
The Test:
• Scan the same area twice and ratio the intensity values (pixel-by-pixel) across both scans
The Results:
• The average pixel-ratio value for both technologies are similar (~1.0)
• Pixel-by-pixel results from the arrayWoRxe show much lower variability (± 3% vs. ±46 %)
• Ideal results should yield pixel-ratios of 1 with no variability
Data Integrity for Your Experiment
High quality, reproducible data is essential to the integrity of your experiment. That’s why the arrayWoRxe Biochip Reader provides the highest quality image data sets while producing repeatable results as well.
The arrayWoRxe reader establishes an industry standard for data quality with:
- High Signal-to-Noise Ratio by capturing significantly more photons during image acquisition
- Full, linear dynamic range by acquiring data with a low noise, high quantum efficiency CCD camera
- The lowest Ratio Coefficient of Variation (CVR) in the industry for accurate determination of spot ratio variability. Precision management of a channel and pixel registration provides a low CVR, allowing the detection of smaller changes in expression levels. This allows you to rescue data that would otherwise be eliminated and to reject poor quality data, which would contaminate your results.
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