New Microarray Scanner Now Available?

The new AlphaScan? microarray scanner from Alpha Innotech Corporation (AIC), a provider of innovative imaging solutions for a wide range of life science application needs, is now available from Genetic Research Instrumentation (GRI). This new product is a compact and high performance slide-based scanner for microarray imaging and data analysis of DNA, protein, cell and tissue arrays. AlphaScan is optimised for single-slide laser scanning of the commonly used excitation dyes (Cy3, Cy5). It also integrates advanced designs in its optical signal processing and motion control systems resulting in superior performance capabilities when compared to similar instruments.

For conventional microarray applications centred on the widely adopted dual wavelength, laser-based slide protocol, AlphaScan offers a high performance option at very competitive prices.

Several features distinguish AlphaScan as a superior performance instrument. First, AlphaScan offers a proprietary Confocal laser design that enables the use of various types of slide substrates. This flexibility is further enhanced by fully adjustable laser power and photo-multiplier tube (PMT) gain settings, which results in superior image quality and higher signal-to-noise ratio.

AlphaScan comes with SpotData Pro software for DNA and protein analysis. It is also available with the ArrayVision? software package, licensed from GE Healthcare, to support even more advanced analysis.