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PerkinElmer Unveils Operetta High Content Screening System
Jan 08, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
At the 6th Annual High Content Analysis Conference in San Francisco, PerkinElmer, a company providing solutions for the health and safety of people and their environment, announced the launch of its Operetta system, a benchtop instrument that provides High Content Screening (HCS) and High Content Analysis (HCA) capabilities to drug discovery and cellular science research laboratories.
Operetta is an HCS/HCA instrument platform that employs PerkinElmer's proprietary Harmony software which provides researchers with building blocks for creating user configurable workflows via simple step-by-step procedures. A range of ready-made solutions for frequently used image analysis tasks is pre-installed. Also installed is a scalable database for image management, and data analysis or retrieval. The Harmony software provides tools to develop high content assays, image analysis storage and retrieval, as well as remote access capability.
"The Operetta platform and Harmony software extend PerkinElmer's portfolio in cellular imaging and bring the benefits of HCS and HCA to almost any life sciences laboratory," said Richard M. Eglen, Ph.D., president, Bio-discovery, PerkinElmer. "Our expertise in cellular imaging provides us with unique insights into common issues encountered in implementing HCS research. We are now providing this critical knowledge to Operetta users, so they can easily and rapidly optimize imaging studies for their cell science research."
The company said that features of the Operetta system include:
- Image quality with alignment-free illumination
- Rapid image processing using multi-processor technology
- Intuitive user interface
- Series of preconfigured image analysis applications
- Image segmentation includes automatic parameter optimization
PerkinElmer said it provides a step-by-step handbook to analyzing results, guiding researchers through the process, from using a ready-made solution to designing an image analysis sequence from the building blocks provided.
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