All, Just a quick correction on the latest price of the plastic sheets. The new ones cost $5.00, so the overall cost will be much cheaper. Thanks Balaji On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Van Den Berg, Bert wrote: > The mosquito has special (albeit fairly pricey at $13 each) plastic > sheets that allow setup of hanging drops in a 96-well format. It can > also do multiple drops per well. As far as I know this is a > capability unique to the Mosquito but I may be wrong. > > Bert van den Berg > University of Massachusetts Medical School > Program in Molecular Medicine > Biotech II, 373 Plantation Street, Suite 115 > Worcester MA 01605 > Phone: 508 856 1201 (office); 508 856 1211 (lab) > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > http://www.umassmed.edu/pmm/faculty/vandenberg.cfm > > From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Lisa A Nagy > Sent: Wed 1/9/2008 11:53 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] crystallization robot > > Looking at the mosquito, it doesn’t have any cover-slip handling > robotics, either. So it’s the same thing- rearrange the dispense > location and flip the cover- which is either a glass plate or mylar > or a tape seal. > -- > Lisa Nagy > University of Alabama-Birmingham > [log in to unmask] >