Autoloader out about on time, but earnings release postponed to 10/31:
>>FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In conjunction with the opening of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CIPH - News) announced the release of its new ProteinChip AutoBiomarker System. The AutoBiomarker System adds fully automated ProteinChip Array handling, an array AutoLoader, new CiphergenExpress(TM) Database software and high throughput biomarker expression profiling kits to the existing SELDI ProteinChip platform.
Researchers at the Virginia Prostate Center in Norfolk, Virginia were one of the first users of the ProteinChip AutoBiomarker System. Lisa Cazares, Lab Manager for the VPC's Biomarker Discovery Laboratory, commented, "In the past, a 100+ patient clinical proteomics study would consume tremendous manpower, resources and time. Using the AutoBiomarker System, we just ran a 900 patient study, running each sample in triplicate, in a little under three weeks."
Dr. William E. Rich, President and CEO of Ciphergen added: "We are very happy with this new system and already have seen in our Biomarker Discovery Center® facilities excellent productivity improvements in large patient population studies that are required to greatly increase the predictive value of early detection and staging of cancer progression."
The features and benefits of the ProteinChip AutoBiomarker System include:
-- A custom configured Biomek(R) 2000 Laboratory Automation Workstation
for automated sample preparation and array spotting
-- Biomarker Patterns(TM) Software, used to identify multivariate protein
pattern correlations
-- Barcode identification of all manufactured ProteinChip Arrays
-- CiphergenExpress(TM) database for rapid data mining and presentation
-- ProteinChip Array AutoLoader feeding up to 24 arrays at a time into the
reader for unattended operation
-- High throughput Expression Difference Mapping(TM) kit for serum protein
expression profiling.<<
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