Miniaturization of High-Throughput Epigenetic Methyltransferase Assays with Acoustic Liquid Handling

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 208-216

  Edwards, Bonnie ^a   Lesnick, John ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Tang, Nga ^b   Peters, Carl ^c  

^a Labcyte Inc   (United States)

^b Cisbio Bioassays   (United States)

^c BMG LABTECH   (United States)

Author keywords

ADE (acoustic droplet ejection); AlphaLISA; epigenetics; HTRF; liquid handling; methyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; COST REDUCTION; DRUG PRODUCTS; LIQUIDS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; OPERATING COSTS;

ACOUSTIC DROPLET EJECTIONS; ALPHALISA; EPIGENETICS; HTRF; LIQUID HANDLING; METHYLTRANSFERASES;

THROUGHPUT;

METHYLTRANSFERASE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ACOUSTIC DISPENSING; ACOUSTIC DROPLET EJECTION; ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY; ACOUSTICS; ALPHALISA ASSAY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONICS; ENZYME ASSAY; EPIGENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MINIATURIZATION; PROCEDURES; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; EPIGENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MINIATURIZATION; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84955494911     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 22110690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2211068215610861     Document Type: Article

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