Automating MALDI sample plate loading.
We describe the design and implementation of a generic robotic solution to automate the loading of MALDI sample plates into a mass spectrometer. The soft- and hardware aspects are described together with the various safety issues that need to be addressed. The automation increases throughput by a factor of between 5- and 80-fold.
Andersson
Tomas
T
Divisions of Robotics and Protein Technology, Lund University, SE-221 84 Lund, Sweden.
Johansson
Mattias
M
Bolmsjö
Gunnar
G
James
Peter
P
D001331:Automation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D012449:Safety; D012984:Software; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*