A versatile and low-cost open source pipetting robot for automation of toxicological and ecotoxicological bioassays.

ABSTRACT: In the past decades, bioassays and whole-organism bioassay have become important tools not only in compliance testing of industrial chemicals and plant protection products, but also in the monitoring of environmental quality. With few exceptions, such test systems are discontinuous. They require exposure of the biological test material in small units, such as multiwell plates, during prolonged incubation periods, and do not allow online read-outs. It is mostly due to these shortcomings that applications in continuous monitoring of, e.g., drinking or surface water quality are largely missing. We propose the use of pipetting robots that can be used to automatically exchange samples in multiwell plates with fresh samples in a semi-static manner, as a potential solution to overcome these limit

SUBMITTER: Steffens S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5473567 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature