mosquito^® crystal by SPT Labtech

"The Mosquito transferred our ability to set up protein crystallization screens. The work of a day can be done in minutes,"

"The robot is very easy to use with very little room for mistakes. The liquid pipetted from the tips are well placed in the well and consistent in position and volume. The interface is easy to understand in a user-friendly environment; the simulation mode allows for validations and safety measures before carrying out any experiments. The robot has the ability to dispense liquid to a myriad of different plate types which gives way to unlimited options. Cares are quite easy, only need to replace the tips spool once it runs out which takes no time at all. The rooms for attachment i.e., LCP crystallography and humidifier adds a lot more varieties to accommodate different goals. All those combined would make the robot well worth the money."

"I am a crystallographer with ~10years of experience and have been using Mosquito for the last three. As compared to all my previous experiences with crystallization robots, Mosquito wins hands down. It is a very simple yet highly accurate robot that gives me the best quality crystals. While other robots and manual setups have yielded crystals, I get the highest diffracting crystals using Mosquito, probably due to the high degree of accuracy."

"We purchased a TTP Labtech mosquito Crystal nanolitre protein crystallization robot roughly 6 months ago and it has been an absolutely brilliant purchase so far. The accuracy of dispensing is really excellent in terms of both the volume amount and how consistently the drop is centered in the sitting drop plates we use. I've used an Art Robbins phoenix during my post doc and although Art Robbins is an excellent company with great customer service and tech support it is more fiddly to have to adjust the viscosity setting for each protein solution in order to get their nanodispenser to dispense the desired volume accurately. With the mosquito you just create the program and hit go and it dispenses the desired volume first time, every time. I love it. "

"Mosquito is very effective and very productive. The results are reproducible. "

"Our crystallography group utilizes two Mosquito robots and they are in near constant use each week. I primarily use the Mosquito for soluble protein crystallography. I find it very easy to design different protocols that I need based on my projects. I use the Mosquito for coarse screening and fine screening because of the minimal protein it uses and the fact that I can set-up hanging drops as well as sitting drops. I also find the Mosquito consistently functions without issues and the liquid handling is very accurate, which also helps to preserve protein. I highly recommend the Mosquito to any lab working in crystallography and looking to increase their throughput!"

"We have used our Mosquito since 2006, and like other TTP Labtech instruments in our lab, it has been robust and easy to use. In the time we've had our Mosquito, our 100+ researchers have set up over 300,000 experiments with it at a fraction of the cost and time that it would have taken using manual methods. In hindsight, purchasing the Mosquito was the best thing our lab could have done at the time, as it's allowed us to move our science forward faster and at a lower cost than we could have ever achieved without it. Training and use of the Mosquito is easy, and the service we have received from TTP has been top-notch from the start. We couldn't ask for more from our Mosquito or TTP, and have been so impressed with it, that we purchased a second one in 2011 for our LCP setups. "

"The Mosquito is a wonderful addition to our University. It can do in less than 5 minutes what takes me more than 8 hours. The nanolitre liquid handling capabilities produces drop size and placement speed that are not humanly possible."

"The Mosquito is an excellent choice for those wishing to miniaturize and/or increase the throughput of their macromolecular crystallization trials. We have been happy owners of Mosquito since 2006 and in my opinion this device is perfect for the multi-user facility that we operate. There is little to go wrong with the instrument, partly because we have a single dedicated 'super-user' who can fine tune parameters on the odd occasion that things require a tweaking. Inveterate "fiddlers" (and we all have them in our labs) can do little damage. It is so easy to use that even Profs can use Mosquito! It runs and runs and runs, and in our experience of TTP Labtech, the after-sales care is excellent and cannot be faulted. Overall, TTP is a great company to do business with, and their Mosquito is a truly excellent, best-in-class product. "