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 **About** \\ **About** \\
-The Fluent Liquid Hander is a state-of-the-art automated liquid handler designed to streamline workflows, optimize assay precision, ensure consistency, and free staff up for more valuable tasks. It has exceptional liquid level detection and dead volume reduction to conserve samples and reagents, as well as fantastic low-volume pipetting. The customizable modular system known as the Patented Dynamic Deck<sup>TM</sup> is equipped with a **Q-Instrument BioShake**, **Tecan Hydrospeed**, **Tecan Tevacs**, and **GFPickolo Colony Picker**. It is controlled with **FluentControl**, a user-friendly software with a drag-and-drop interface to create programs that are executed at a push of a button. There is real-time monitoring to see progress, as well as error-notifications. \\+The Fluent Liquid Hander is a state-of-the-art automated liquid handler designed to streamline workflows, optimize assay precision, ensure consistency, and free staff up for more valuable tasks. It has exceptional liquid level detection and dead volume reduction to conserve samples and reagents, as well as fantastic low-volume pipetting. The customizable modular system known as the Patented Dynamic Deck<sup>TM</sup> is equipped with a **Q-Instrument BioShake**, **Tecan Hydrospeed**, **Tecan Tevacs**, and **GFPickolo Colony Picker**. It is controlled with **FluentControl**, a user-friendly software with a drag-and-drop interface to create programs that are executed at a push of a button. There is real-time monitoring to see progress, as well as error notifications. \\ 
 + 
 +**Equipment reservation**  
 +  * Create a Core Lab Management System (CLMS) account at clms.cnsi.ucla.edu. 
 +  * Go to BioPACIFIC Materials Innovation Platform. 
 +  * Book TFS Laboratory Automation System and/or Tecan Fluent Liquid Handler \\ 
 + 
 +**User Notes** 
 +  * Wipe off and decontaminate equipment surfaces and labware with 70% ethanol before and after running the automation protocols. //__Do not use bleach,__// 
 +  * Check waste chute for Tecan Fluent before use. Liquid handling protocols use a lot of disposable tips and waste fills up quickly.  
 +  * Return any LBF labware (i.e. pre-labeled troughs, unused plates, or buffer stocks) to their original locations in the lab space. 
 + 
  
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 **User Notes** \\ **User Notes** \\
-**Before use**: make sure to check that the waste is empty \\ +**Before use**: Make sure to check that the waste is empty. \\ 
-**After use**: make sure to empty waste by:+**After use**: Make sure to empty waste by:
    - Removing the waste bin on the low shelf of the table from the tubing    - Removing the waste bin on the low shelf of the table from the tubing
-   - Bleach the contents of the bin +   - Dispose of contents as appropriate for the respective contents (i.e. bleach as necessary)
-   - Dispose of bleached contents as appropriate for the respective contents+
    - Rinse the waste bin    - Rinse the waste bin
    - Put the waste bin back on the shelf and reattach to the tubing     - Put the waste bin back on the shelf and reattach to the tubing 
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 {{:tevacs.png?400|}} \\ {{:tevacs.png?400|}} \\
 **About** \\ **About** \\
-Integrated with the Fluent, the Te-VacS is used for automatic rapid separation or purification of biological molecules. It can be used for all nucleic acid purification applications such as:   +Integrated with the Fluent, the Te-VacS is used for automatic rapid separation or purification of biological molecules. It can be used for all nucleic acid purification applications such as:  
- * extraction of plasmid DNA +  * extraction of plasmid DNA 
- * purification of PCR products and cycle sequencing products +  * purification of PCR products and cycle sequencing products 
- * purification of genomic DNA from blood, body fluids, cells, tissue, micro-organisms, or plants+  * purification of genomic DNA from blood, body fluids, cells, tissue, micro-organisms, or plants
 Its use is not limited to nucleic acid processing.  \\ Its use is not limited to nucleic acid processing.  \\
  
 **User Notes** \\ **User Notes** \\
 +**Before use**: Make sure to check that the waste is empty. \\
 +**After use**: Decontaminate the vacuum block using 70% ethanol and make sure to empty waste by:
 +   - Removing the waste bin on the low shelf of the table from the tubing
 +   - Dispose of contents as appropriate for the respective contents (i.e. bleach as necessary)
 +   - Rinse the waste bin
 +   - Put the waste bin back on the shelf and reattach to the tubing 
 +For more information see: {{ :tevacscleaningprotocol.pdf |}}
  
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 ===== GFPickolo Colony Picker =====  ===== GFPickolo Colony Picker ===== 
-{{:pickoloimage.png?400|}}\\+{{:gfpickolo2.png?400|}}\\
  
 **About** \\ **About** \\
-The Pickolo is a fully automated microbial colony picker. It uses a camera and a program that allows finding, filtering, and sorting colonies based on size, shape, color, isolation distance, and circularity. It works with petri dishes, multiwell plates, and omnitrays. It also has several picking modes such as scooping, sgratching, and multihit, utilizing agar height detection. Inside the Fluent, once the colonies are picked, they can be automatically transferred to a multiwell plate for further experimentation. \\+The GFPickolo is a fully automated microbial colony picker. It uses a camera and a program that allows finding, filtering, and sorting colonies based on size, shape, color, isolation distance, and circularity. The GFPickolo is also specifically equiped to pick colonies with the strongest, weakest, average, or largest fluorescent signal. This tool is specifically useful for cloning plasmids containing GFP. It works with petri dishes, multiwell plates, and omnitrays. It also has several picking modes such as scooping, scratching, and multihit, utilizing agar height detection. Inside the Fluent, once the colonies are picked, they can be automatically transferred to a multiwell plate for further experimentation. \\
  
 **User Notes** \\ **User Notes** \\
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 +===== FluentControl Software =====
 +{{:fluentcontrol.png?400|}} \\
 +
 +**About** \\
 +FluentControl is used to program the **Fluent Liquid Handler**. It is easy-to-use, drag-and-drop software that does not require any programming expertise. A 3D editor is to configure the worktable. It has a built-in auto-context check feature to review methods as they are created, and there is even a 3D simulator to check a finalized method before actually running it. Protocols can be saved for repeated use. \\
 +
 +**User Notes** \\
 +Make sure to **save** your work!
 +
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 ===== Referece Documentation ===== ===== Referece Documentation =====
 **Fluent** \\ **Fluent** \\
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 **Te-VacS** \\ **Te-VacS** \\
 {{ :tevacsoperatingmanual.pdf |}} \\ {{ :tevacsoperatingmanual.pdf |}} \\
 +**Pickolo** \\
 +
 +**FluentControl** \\
 +{{ :fluentcontrol_3.6_manual.pdf |}} \\
 +{{ :fluentcontrolbrochure.pdf |}}\\
  
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