You can find more information about Andrew Assistant ™ here, including a 1 minute video showing the basics features of the program.
Free download of the novel software for pipetting protocol design requires filling the registration form below, and you will receive the password by e-mail. If you have done it already, you can proceed by using the login-form on the side-bar.
By this example, we provide a demonstration for reproducibility and time savings by performing a very typical operation which is part of the daily activity in the lab: a serial dilution.
Yes, Andrew is very small robot and easily transportable (10kg).
Andrew can be installed in your hood, behind a screen for radioactivity experiments or anywhere else.
Andrew Assistant ™, the software of Andrew, is free software which does not need to be plugged to Andrew to be used.
Why should it be painful and long to describe a protocol with a software?
We have designed Andrew – Generation One – limited to the use of single channel pipettes.
Here are pictures for guiding you towards a convenient installation.
Andrew is shipped to you by mail (FEDEX® is preferred, but you can choose your preferred service).
Of course, Andrew is designed to deal with the existing process, so it can do what you do today in your lab.
Yes, you can. A Domino ™ is a holder for YOUR consumables: we have Dominos ™ for your tip boxes, your 96 well microplates, your microtubes and your tubes.
Andrew is not using any specific consumables, the Andrew-Generation One is able to use and pipette into your consumables:
-96 wells microplates
-96 PCR well plates with or without skirt
-Strips of PCR strips
-15ml and 50 ml centrifuge tubes
-0,6ml, 1,5ml and 2 ml microtubes
The flexibility of Andrew, partially due to its possibility to use a large majority of consumables, allows you to prepare your PCRs, make your serial dilutions, execute your biochemical assays, reformat your microplates ….
Of course you can install Andrew on a normal bench.
Andrew is a very small and light liquid handler.
Yes, Andrew can mix your sample by pipetting up and down as you manually do every day.
Andrew is using 5 Gilson’s PIPETMAN Classic ™. He is able to dispense volumes ranging from 0,2µl to 1000µl.
Yes, Andrew can use your own tips and if they are compatible with Gilson’s PIPETMAN Classic ™.
Yes, you can use complete or incomplete box of tip, it is your choice.
We have designed Andrew -Generation One- to use only 5 pipettes: the Gilson’s PIPETMAN Classic ™.
The viscosity is an important pipetting parameter: that’s why, during the design of your protocol with Andrew Assistant ™ ,the software of Andrew, you have the possibility, in the pipetting window of under the “Extraparameters” button, to tell Andrew that your reagent is viscous.
These are multiple options proposed by Andrew Assistant ™, the software of Andrew, in order to integrate operations that are not strictly pipette actions.
As manually, you have the possibility to keep pipette tips during your pipetting steps.
Here we document all possible pipetting parameters. Microplate ordering, external Microsoft Office® Lists, high viscosity liquids, forward pipetting, reverse pipetting, pre-mixing, post-mixing, tip change policy: all is possible (once you know how to do it).
This protocol describes the aliquoting of a reagent into 10 microtubes (1ml per tubes)
Very few steps to design your protocol:
-drag and drop a 15ml centrifuge tube on the pad and double-click on it and describe your stock solution (solution you would like to aliquot: concentration and volume)
-drag and drop 10 microtubes (they will be your aliquots)
-Hold down CTRL and drag the pipette from the 15ml tube to one microtube then a second one….By maintaining CTRL and clicking on the tubes one by one, you will be able to describe your aliquoting actions very quickly: describe the volume to transfer and the extraparameters if needed.
What’s a DOMINO ™? And how it allows you to compose an experiment ranging from a single tube to 195 tubes?
Andrew can be installed at 4°C.
With his weight of 10 kg and its small size, you can easily transport Andrew in your cold room to really work at constant temperature.
Andrew is very compact and therefore can be easily installed in a biosafety laboratory.
You need filter tips to prevent cross contamination or “carry over” from one sample to another for all your DNA applications, Andrew you can use filter tips, if they are compatible with Andrew’s pipettes.
No, at Andrew Alliance, we are only selling Andrew, a novel type of pipetting robot using manual pipettes.
Yes, we can. Our Dominos ™ are made to hold your tubes and consumables.
Andrew is using the pipettes as much as you or more since he does not suffer from pain for long and repetitive protocols.
Serial dilutions are often a nightmare for biologists: How to compute the volumes, the factor of dilution and the number of points needed to have the expected concentrations…?
This video is showing you how to make multi-selection to save time.
Andrew Assistant ™, Andrew’s software, allows you to describe every single movement that you do, or you should do, manually with your pipettes.
Andrew Assistant ™, is a user friendly software that allows you to describe quickly a protocol with all its steps: pipetting steps, but also incubations, notifications, serial dilution with concentration calculation, notification to a user…
We know that your protocols could be complex and you can be interrupted during the design of them, that’s why we have tried to help you saving time and describing a protocol, for you or our liquid handler Andrew, in an easy and intuitive way.
What can you do with Andrew and how to describe your experiments with Andrew Assistant ™?
In Andrew Assistant, Andrew’s Software, you have the possibility to import a CSV file, and excel file or any list of wells.
In Andrew Assistant, Andrew’s software, we have imagined a tool in order to describe easily the single dilution but also the serial dilutions.
Andrew is a novel liquid handler that uses manual pipettes according to the state-of-art rules suggested by pipette manufacturers.
This is a classical protocol describing all the steps of a “kit”, e.g.
Andrew is able to pipette: you probably know it. But Andrew is also able to add timers (incubation time), notification, and user action.
The tests were made to evaluate the performances of Andrew using conventional pipettes (Gilson’s PIPETMAN Classic ™) and tips (Gilson DIAMONDS® Tips).
This is an example of plate reformatting
Imagine that you have 4 microplates and you would like to transfer specific wells from each plate to a single microplate.
Andrew is able to work with different type of consumables that fit into specific holders or Dominos ™.
Geneva, 29th April 2013: Biolab A/S, based in Denmark, and Andrew Alliance S.A., the manufacturer of the Andrew pipetting robot, today announced the establishment of an exclusive distribution agreement for the Scandinavian market (Denmark, Sweden and Norway).