plate::explorer® - The UHTS-System		Archive ! (04/2004)
	Carl Zeiss Jena together with the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Basel, Schweiz), has developed an innovative screening system for Ultra High Throughput (UHTS) which sets new standards in pharmaceutical drug research:		Architecture of the plate::explorer Brochure (approx. 1.8 MB) Deutsche Version
	plate::vision the high-performance multimode reader offers 96-channel parallel detection of fluorescence, absorption and luminescence in 96, 384 and 1,536-well microtiter plates Compact workstations and systems containing a new robust technology for the transport of microtiter plates with a throughput of > 100,000 specimens a day. The need for mechanical switching required by numerous other systems to start up a new assay is avoided, thereby increasing the effective throughput plate::works the user-friendly software offers simple assay programming, a process simulation before the start of the assay and visualization of the process and the measurement results during operation
	Architecture of the plate::explorer
	The plate handling system was especially designed to meet the demands of high throughput screening. It combines flexibility through rapid configuration of an automated assay with a high specimen throughput (between 10 and 100 plates per hour depending on the assay). The individual automated processing instruments are arranged around turn tables in workstations. The turn tables provide all instruments with bi-directional and parallel plate transport in the sequence established by the user through the software.