Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2019
Organization: BLDE Deemed to be University
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- Ease of use
- After sales service
- Value for money
Good instrument.
Application Area: Western blotting
"I highly recommend it. But it's a little expensive. Now they have released an Advanced ChemiDoc system with a semidry blotting system, with which we can save time and, I hope, get accurate reproducible results."
Review date: 11 Jul 2019 | ChemiDoc XRS+ System
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Advanced Reviewer Member since: 2018
Organization: Hebrew University
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- Ease of use
- After sales service
- Value for money
Would recommend to others.
Application Area:Protein and DNA gels
"We can easily take high quality pictures of gels and analyse them with the accompanying software. Would recommend to others."
Review date: 20 Dec 2018 | ChemiDoc XRS+ System
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Reviewer Member since: 2017
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Ease of use
- After sales service
- Value for money
No more dark rooms for western blots
Application Area:Gel and blot imaging
"No more spending time developing western blot membranes in the dark room. We can take multiple images at multiple exposure times in a streamlined manner. We mostly use this System for DNA gels and protein gels and blots. The Imager is easy to use, easy to care. Images can be saved in different formats, processed, bands can be quantified in publication-quality manner. Our Sales Rep was extremely professional and flexible."
Review date: 18 Nov 2017 | ChemiDoc XRS+ System
The ChemiDoc XRS+ System is based on CCD high-resolution, high-sensitivity detection technology and modular options to accommodate a wide range of samples and support multiple detection methods including fluorescence, colorimetry, densitometry, chemiluminescence, and chemifluorescence. The system is controlled by Image Lab software to optimize imager performance for fast, integrated, and automated image capture and analysis of various samples.
The system accommodates a wide array of samples, from large handcast polyacrylamide gels to small ReadyAgarose Gels and various blots. The system is an ideal accompaniment to PCR, purification, and electrophoresis systems, enabling image analysis and documentation of restriction digests, amplified nucleic acids, genetic fingerprinting, RFLPs, and protein purification and characterization.
Key benefits include:
- Gel and blot imaging and analysis are quick and accurate
- Automated, hands-off routines; no training is required
- Save and recall all the steps in the workflow for repeatable and reproducible results
- Optimize the system at setup for image data that is always accurate, reproducible, and free of imaging artifacts
- Wide range of applications with special accessories to preserve sample integrity for downstream research while ensuring user safety
- Comprehensive, automated quantitative analysis of protein and DNA samples in seconds
- Customize and organize data in reports
- Obtain publication-quality results quickly
The ChemiDoc XRS+ System optimizes reproducibility and reliability of experimental data, enabling quantitative comparisons between different experiments. Using proprietary algorithms, this imaging system is calibrated at setup to ensure:
- Images are in focus at all times, regardless of zoom level or sample position
- Appropriate flat fielding correction is automatically and consistently applied to image data for every application
- Imaging artifacts are automatically corrected
The ChemiDoc XRS+ System offers fast and sensitive chemiluminescence detection in addition to gel and blot documentation of fluorescent and colorimetric samples. The system includes a supersensitive 16-bit CCD camera that is supercooled for detection of faint samples. The ChemiDoc XRS+ system can be used for imaging with a wide variety of applications that require high resolution and sensitivity (such as chemiluminescent western blots).
The ChemiDoc XRS+ System eliminates the need to use costly and unreliable X-ray film technologies while providing quantitative and reproducable data in seconds. The system features a signal accumulation mode (SAM), which guides a user through determining optimum exposure time and capturing a desired image of a chemiluminescent sample.
