Walkaway Automation for mRNA Library Prep: Real-World Implementation and Results

    Watch the Lunch & Learn recording below.

    About this Lunch & Learn

    In this Lunch and learn webinar, scientists from the Whitehead Institute Genome Technology Core (GTC) showcased an end-to-end, walkaway automation of the Watchmaker mRNA Library Prep Kit on our firefly+ platform. The team walked through the complete automated workflow, demonstrating how firefly+ performs in real laboratory settings, displaying how complex library preparation processes can be streamlined with automation.

    Gain insight into how reliable, high-quality library generation can be achieved with minimal hands-on intervention, enabling greater consistency, efficiency, and scalability for transcriptomics workflows.

    What you'll learn
    • How to implement fully automated mRNA library prep using firefly+
    • Practical insights from real-world workflow execution at Whitehead Institute GTC
    • Strategies to improve reproducibility and reduce hands-on time in NGS library prep

     

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    firefly, the perfect solution

    Our firefly liquid handling instrument has been designed specifically to streamline NGS sample and library preparation. It brings together the capabilities of multiple instruments into a single compact design, including pipetting, dispensing, incubating and shaking, so you can be sure you’re making the most of precious samples, reagents, and laboratory space. Setting up protocols is easy through firefly’s powerful, intuitive software, and the ability to author and share to any PC through the cloud makes automation truly accessible to all. 

    The firefly liquid handling instrument provides researchers with all the automated liquid handling tools they need for fast and reliable NGS library preparation. Centered around our innovative positive displacement dispensing technology, firefly can handle even the most volatile or viscous liquids, and magnetic beads, without any compromise to speed or accuracy. The pipetting functionality offers complete versatility across 96 and 384 well plates, so you can drive throughput across a range of genomics liquid handling tasks such as magnetic bead clean up, PCR and qCPR setup, DNA quantification and normalization, and sample pooling, with significantly reduced hands-on time.