Is the Opera a better platform when the Definiens software is used with it?
We feel the Cellenger is a lot more powerful than the Acapella, the [Opera] image-analysis software. We like Acapella because it’s quick and simple, and in certain cases, when you don’t need the functionality of Cellenger, it’s a better tool for on-line automated analysis, when you need to actually analyze the images in parallel with the screen, rather than subsequently. If you do it offline afterwards, the deeper functionality and slightly slower analysis of Cellenger is not an issue. But on particular cases, when you’re running a high-throughput screen, you may want Acapella. And how did Cenix end up in the fold? Cenix was a spin-out of the Max Plank institute, from the labs interested in RNAi — specifically, Tony Hyman’s lab. Anything where we’re doing RNAi at a larger scale, we work backward and forward with them — we would have to do the proof-of-principle, more of the basic research, and they tend to do the applications at a larger scale. This is also a far more integrated collab
