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		<title>Product Review: BioTek Microflo liquid dispensing machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of pictures of the BioTek Microflo liquid dispenser.
Device with hatch open and spring tension unlocked:
Device with hatch open and spring tension locked:
This machine has both serial RS-232 and USB; however, the communication link is a proprietary protocol which is only compatible with BioTek&#8217;s Microsoft Windows software.  The machine is not Unix compatible. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microplate Standard Dimensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mission of the Microplate Standards Working Group (MSWG) is to recommend, develop, and maintain standards to facilitate automated processing of microplates on behalf of and for acceptance by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Once such standards are approved by the MSWG, they are presented to the governing council of the Society of Biomolecular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Streaming Video to any Bio-lab!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Combining an inexpensive (under $15) USB webcam with free VLC media player software, it is simple to add password-protected internet streaming video for remote users to any lab.  VLC includes the ability to capture from a local webcam, transcode the video data, and stream the video over the web.  It&#8217;s available for OS/X, Unix, Linux, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Bio-lab Automation &#8211; Software for Controlling FIAlab Devices for Microfluidics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perl software to control lab syringe pump and valve device, for biology automation, initial version finished today. Works great.  Next, need to add the network code, it can be controlled remotely and in synchronization with other laboratory devices, including the bio-robot.  This software will be used in the microfluidics project.  The software is also part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a needle is not a needle: inside &amp; outside needle diameter variations</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/396?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In various discussions in biology circles there&#8217;s often the lament that &#8220;biology is hard&#8221; (which I agree) and from the biologists there are continued remarks that repeating a protocol in a slightly different way will have poor results.  As an engineer I am fascinated by this because reproducibility is the key to making biology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perl Bio-Robotics module, Robotics.pm and Robotics::Tecan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FYI for Bioperl developers:
I am developing a module for communication with biology robotics, as discussed recently on #bioperl, and I invite your comments.  Currently this module talks to a Tecan genesis workstation robot.  Other vendors are Beckman Biomek, Agilent, etc.  No such modules exist anywhere on the &#8216;net with the exception of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing with the $100K Robots for Biology Automation</title>
		<link>http://88proof.com/synthetic_biology/blog/archives/318?utm_source=subscriber&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tecan Genesis Workstation 200:  It&#8217;s an industrial benchtop robot for liquid handling with multiple arms for tray handling and pipetting.

The robot&#8217;s operations are complex, so an integrated development environment is used to program it (though biologists wouldn&#8217;t call it an integrated development environment; maybe they&#8217;d call it a scripting application?), with custom graphical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Train the Biology Robot: Have the Machine Read the Protocol and Automate Itself</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bioinformatics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine reading these kinds of instructions and performing such a task for a few hours: &#8220;Resuspend pelleted bacterial cells in 250 µl Buffer P1 and transfer to a micro-centrifuge tube. Ensure that RNase A has been added to Buffer P1. No cell clumps should be visible after resuspension of the pellet. If LyseBlue reagent has [...]]]></description>
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