DASGIP® Control is now DASware® control 5

Parallel Processing Advances Bioprocess Development

14 Jun 2015
Lois Manton-O'Byrne, PhD
Executive Editor

With DASware control 5, Eppendorf presents its revised software for benchtop bioprocess control. The updated graphical user interface provides intuitive process views, user-defined functions, and configurable charts. Thanks to a new database- and core architecture, users benefit from faster loading times even with big datasets. Proven functionalities of current DASGIP Control have been improved, such as parallel calibration procedures, comprehensive recipe management, and the seamless integration of offline analytical data. Flexible setpoint profiles enable process automation.

The parallel design of the software facilitates implementation of Quality by Design approaches and accelerates process development. With DASware control 5, researchers and process engineers in both cell culture and microbiology can operate up to 16 benchtop bioreactors in parallel, with each vessel and process parameter individually monitored and controlled. Using the Eppendorf DASbox® Mini Bioreactor System, a single process computer can manage up to 24 bioreactors.

“Our new control software expands upon our established Point-Click-Grow concept for easy handling and integrated workflows.” explains Dr. Stephan Zelle, Product Manager Bioprocess at Eppendorf. “With editable templates it takes users only a few clicks to start their process. Automated reporting and smart tools further enhance data management and analysis of experimental runs.”

DASware control 5 is part of the parallel Eppendorf DASGIP and DASbox bioreactor systems. With DASware migrate, also users of New Brunswick™ and third-party bioreactor systems can benefit from the advantages of the Eppendorf DASware software suite.

Eppendorf DASware® design

Eppendorf

DASGIP bioreactor systems serve as an ideal platform to carry out Design of Experiments (DoE) on bioreactors in parallel. There is a multitude of 3rd party DoE software tools available on the market – DASware design automatically compiles DoE information from such tools into recipes and feedback response information into DoE and multivariate analysis and reporting tools.DASware design comes with a full factorial DoE builder. Alternatively, a large variety of DoE designs for screening, process development and optimization can be automatically imported from the most powerful 3rd party DoE tools like JMP®, MODDE® (Umetrics), Minitab®, and Design-Expert® (Stat-Ease®). Parallel recipes incorporating the DoE factor variations (i.e. pH, DO, temperature set-points or feed rates) are automatically populated. Following DASGIP‘s Point-Click-Grow concept they can be carried out on a set of bioreactors with a single mouse-click. Features: Built-in full factorial DoE: easy definition of experimental factors and responses; center points and randomized positioning of runs Integration of 3rd party DoE tools like JMP and others Recipe generator supporting multiple system layouts Applications: DoE with parallel bioreactor systems such as the DASbox Mini Bioreactor System Screening, process development and optimization

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DASbox® Mini Bioreactor System

Eppendorf

The DASbox is a unique mini bioreactor system suitable for microbial and cell culture as well as stem cell applications. It is designed as a 4-fold system with up to twenty-four parallel operating bioreactors. With working volumes of 60 – 250 mL the DASbox is the optimal tool for advanced process development and Design of Experiments (DoE) applications. All critical process parameters can be precisely controlled. Liquid-free temperature control and exhaust condensation satisfy users with easy handling. In addition to using industry standard glass bioreactors the DASbox can be equipped with Eppendorf BioBLU® 0.3 vessels, all fully instrumented single-use mini bioreactors. Eppendorf DASbox® Mini Bioreactor System Features: Parallel set-up of up to 24 bioreactors; Excellent scalability and reproducibility in both microbial and cell culture applications; Supports industry standard glass bioreactors (DASbox Mini Bioreactor) as well as the BioBLU 0.3 Single-Use Vessels; Small working volumes save on the amount of cell material, media and supplements required; Extremely compact system with a footprint of only 7.5 cm (3 in) benchspace per vessel; Individual temperature control with liquid-free heating and cooling (Peltier); Liquid-free Peltier exhaust condenser with easy handling by automatic slide in activation and slide out deactivation mode; LC display with key process parameters and integrated alarm function simplifies monitoring; Fully mass flow-controlled gas mixing with individual gas mixture from Air, O2, CO2 and N2, each directable either to headspace or sparger; Standard sensors for precise measurement and control of temperature, pH, DO, level and ORP (redox potential); optical pH sensors available; Precise miniature variable speed pumps, continuous flow rates down to 0.3 mL/h; Sealed magnetic overhead drives for single-use vessels and direct overhead drives for autoclavable vessels; up- or downflow selectable; Optional pull-out system for enhanced accessibility of bioreactors and control unit. Applications: Process development in cell culture and microbiology; Design of Experiments (DoE) Media optimization Clone and cell line screening, strain characterization.

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