Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation

February 2010: Volume 15, Number 1

Table of Contents

• ORIGINAL REPORTS

  Robotic Liquid Handlers and Semi-Automated Cell Quantification Systems Increase Consistency and Reproducibility in High-Throughput, Cell-Based Assay
  By Jamie Heinzman, Shara Rice, and L. A. Corkan

  Development of an Improved Scheduling Algorithm for Lab Test Operations on a Small Size Bio Robot Platform
  By Ja Choon Koo, Seung Hoon Shin, Byung June Choi, Sung Moon Jin, Hyouk Ryeol Choi, Sung Moo Ryew, Jung Woo Kim, Ki Tak Ahn, and Wankyun Chung

  Automated High-Throughput Microchannel Assays for Cell Biology: Operational Optimization and Characterization
  By John Puccinelli, Xiaojing Su, and David Beebe

  An Integrated Laboratory Robotic System for Autonomous Discovery of Gene Function
  By Andrew Sparkes, Ross King, Wayne Aubrey, Michael Benway, Emma Byrne, Amanda Clare, Maria Liakata, Magdalena Markham, Kenneth Whelan, Michael Young, and Jem Rowland

  Evaluation of the QIAsymphony SP Workstation for Magnetic Particle-Based Nucleic Acid Purification from Different Sample Types for Demanding Downstream Applications
  By Thorsten Voss, Mogens Kruhøffer, Katharina Beller, Mario Scherer, Janina Cramer, Thomas Deutschmann, Cordula Homberg, Martin Schlumpberger, and Christian Lenz

• INNOVATION BRIEFS

  Wound Healing Assays in Well-Plate Coupled Microfluidic Devices with Controlled Parallel Flow
  By Carolyn Grace Conant, J. Tanner Nevill, Michael Schwartz, and Cristian Ionescu-Zanetti

  An Automated 1536 Well Microplate Format Cytochrome P450 Inhibition Assay Using a Tecan Freedom EVO Workstation with Integrated Innovadyne Nanodrop II Dispenser
  By Brett Litten, Robin Smith, and Eleanor Banfield

  The HID EVOlution System for Automation of DNA Quantification and Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Analysis
  By Jaiprakash Shewale, Rixun Fang, Jason Liu, Heidi Kijenski, Jacki Benfield, Ada Wong, Robert Lagace, Michael Cassel, Vivian Nguyen, Wendy Luber, Dirk Abeln, Lynda Treat-Clemons, and Manohar Furtado

• REGULAR COLUMNS

  Literature Highlights
  By Kerstin Thurow and Hilmar Weinmann

  From the Editor-in-Chief: Call for Nominations — Introducing The JALA Ten Breakthroughs in Innovation
  By Dean Ho

  From the Executive Director: 2009 — Another Great Year for ALA
  By Greg Dummer

  World News

  Meetings & Events Calendar

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