What are the Echo Series 500 liquid handlers?
The Echo® Liquid Handling Systems are designed to use ADE to transfer nanoliter volumes of DMSO and aqueous solutions from source plates to destination plates. In both systems, liquid from any well in a source plate can be delivered to any well in a destination plate. The volume of the transfer can be set for each individual well or for the entire plate. Fluid from a single well in a source plate can be transferred to multiple wells of the destination plate in multiple volumes. Fluids from multiple source wells can be pooled into the same destination well if desired. GUI flexibility lets the user decide whether reformatting to a higher density plate should be done in quadrant mode or in interleaved mode. The systems measure the fluid height in each source well and the percent hydration of DMSO-based samples. They also automatically confirm transfer success in each well. The Echo 555 liquid handler is approximately twice as fast as the Echo 550. See “How fast do the Echo systems transfe
