Echo™ 550 Acoustic Liquid Handler

The award winning Labcyte® Echo™ 550 liquid handler is acclaimed as one of the most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace. The Echo 550 is a liquid handler optimized for transferring volumes as low as 2.5 nL of DMSO/water solutions between microplates with any-well-to-any-well capability coupled with any volume transfers.

The Echo 550 performs direct microplate-to-microplate transfers of droplets down to 2.5 nanoliters. Besides transferring nanoliter volumes between microplates, the Echo 550 also automatically determines the water content of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in each well and the depth of fluid in each well. This provides the user with important information concerning the quantity and quality of samples in the source plates.

See the new Echo® 555 liquid handler with twice the throughput!

Plate replication and reformatting of compound libraries in DMSO Plate compression or expansion

• from 384- or 1536-well source microplates
• to 96-, 384-, or 1536-well destination microplates

• Touchless transfer operation. No tips, no nozzles, no pin tools, no waste.
• Dispense down to 2.5 nanoliters
• Measure water content in DMSO
• Measure source-well fluid volume

CV: 2.5-250 nL < 8% guaranteed for Echo qualified source plates

Echo liquid handling products from Labcyte enable the routine use of higher density, lower well-volume microwell plates and provide better, more precise and more accurate results while doing so. High-density assay plates can decrease the amount of assay reagent required for each test by a factor of up to 400. These products enable more efficient use of reagents in a wide variety of fundamental assays for high-throughput biology. The adoption of high-density plates in drug discovery will dramatically increase the number of assays that can be performed with a limited amount of each test compound. This will allow screening against the 2,000 to 4,000 new targets being discovered through genomics. Transfer fluids to as many as 640,000 wells per day with this unique, “touchless” technology.

For further information on the Labcyte Echo 550 and Echo 555 Liquid Handler please download the following Brochure.