Singer Instruments develops and manufactures mechatronic workstations and laboratory automation robotics used in biological and genetic research
COLONY COUNTING
High resolution plate imaging solutions with ultra-uniform lighting for deeper phenotyping.
ColonyCam VOGUE
High throughput phenotyping.
Designed to capture high-resolution, super uniform colour photos of your plates.
ColonyCam functions as a standalone imager, or can be integrated with a robotic arm as part of a larger workcell.
PhenoBooth+
Colony counting and phenotyping
Now with inbuilt growth curves, heatmaps and statistical charts designed to promote easy data visualisation and management, helping you understand your results faster.
Use PhenoBooth+ in isolation for medium throughput colony phenotyping and counting. Or go next-level by pairing with ROTOR+ to underpin systematic, data-driven investigations analysing tens or even hundreds of thousands of clones at a time.
COLONY PICKING
An upgradable benchtop colony picking solution ready to scale with your lab’s needs.
PIXL
Precision microbial colony picking
An ultra-reliable and super-easy-to-use microbial colony picker .It automates imaging, colony recognition, colony selection, and picking; from Petri dishes to multiwell plates.
PIXL Dark
Walkaway precision colony picking
PIXL Dark is a microbial colony picker specifically designed to integrate with robotic arms to reliably pick up to 15,000 colonies a day. It is the automation-ready variant of the PIXL microbial colony picker.
PIXL Dark’s automatic door and well documented API make it seamlessly compatible with multiple integration providers. Perfect for end-to-end workcells, PIXL Dark delivers reliable walkaway colony picking while maintaining the safe, sterile environment you need for your experiments.
HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING
Pick and array yeast and bacterial colonies at ultra high density to streamline microbial screens.
ROTOR+ PIXL
Automate precision colony transfer at ultra-high densities. Reduce cost and time >60 fold by screening on agar with ROTOR+ PIXL, compared to screening in 96-well plates.
These high throughput screening robots are absurdly versatile
Reach your high throughput screening targets sooner by combining ROTOR+ with PIXL to automate colony transfer at ultra-high densities.
Natively compatible with yeast, bacteria, fungi, algae, and that weird unidentified filamentous orange organism that you isolated from the soil.
ROTOR+
High throughput screening and plating
ROTOR+ is a precision benchtop robot for easy, ultra-fast manipulation of high-density microbial arrays.
Using sterile ready-to-use replica plating pads, ROTOR+ reliably supports liquid pinning to and from 96 and 384-well microtiter plates, and agar pinning at densities of 96, 384, 1536, and even 6144 (that’s a whole yeast knockout library on one plate).
Array yeast, fungi, bacteria and algae. ROTOR+ lets you screen millions of strains with unparalleled efficiency and reproducibility.
PIXL with Momentum
Build a fully-integrated colony picking workcell
PIXL comes fully validated with Momentum workflow software, enabling you to initiate seamless walkaway colony picking by integrating with a Spinnaker robotic arm, supplied in partnership with Thermo Scientific.
Reliable walkaway automation is capable of intelligent sample handling across 24-hour runs.
User-friendly interface with the versatility to unify multiple automation islands towards the development of a larger interconnected system.
LIQUID HANDLING
Benchtop liquid handling robots suitable for a range of everyday pipetting tasks.
SQWERTY
Benchtop pipetting robot
A compact pipetting robot built for everyday use. SQWERTY makes it quick and easy to run complex pipetting workflows involving almost
any liquid or labware, even 384-well plates.
SQWERTY’s intuitive software interface means you can
expect to be setting up your own workflows within minutes,
not hours or days, no experience necessary.
Once you’ve optimized for performance, on-screen prompts make it simple for any member of the lab to run your workflow.
Automate anything from quick simple transfers, to multistep pipetting workflows, by combining forward, reverse and multi-dispense pipetting modes.
MICROMANIPULATION
These handheld mechanical tools effortlessly scale down hand movements by a factor of 4:1.
MK1
The MK1 micromanipulator is a small, highly balanced handheld device designed for delicate, steady handling and control of precision needles and tools.
Using natural hand movements, the Mk1 moves the tools in the same directions as the hand moves. Hence, you can leave the MK1 at any position without the need for an additional tilt mount.
TETRAD DISSECTION
Achieve accurate single cell manipulation of budding yeast and algae with our purpose built workstations.
MSM 400
Semi-automated tetrad dissection microscope
The MSM 400 is an intelligent semi-automated tetrad dissection workstation. It makes it quick and easy to dissect, sort and catalogue meiotic progeny, at up to 20 sets of tetrads per petri.
Big brother to the SporePlay+, the comfortable ergonomic design and precision X, Y & Z axis needle control makes the MSM 400 a firm favourite in leading genomics facilities worldwide.
SporePlay+
Manual tetrad dissection microscope
SporePlay+ is an easy-to-use tetrad dissection microscope ideal for performing classical genetic experiments analysing meiotic progeny.
Leading yeast researchers told us they needed a simpler more cost-effective solution to tetrad dissection. Taking the intuitive handheld controls of the motor-driven MSM 400 and applying them to a manual device; we delivered you SporePlay+.
With proven use cases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae,Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and Cryptococcus neoformans, SporePlay+ is the preferred choice for a variety of spore-producing species.
