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Here, Dr Philip Hargreaves (business development) and Gabriela Saldanha (product management) discuss the drivers and lessons learned behind Promega’s successful development collaboration with Hitachi High-Tech…
We ask for insight into the successful instrument development collaboration that has resulted in the recent launch of a single base resolution capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument for low-throughput DNA separation and analysis.
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What were the main design and development drivers behind this instrument?
Philip: Our collaborative goal was to produce an affordable instrument that could perform both fragment analysis and Sanger sequencing with high quality. The Spectrum Compact CE System needed to be easy to learn and use, and flexible to adapt to any user’s workflow. It had to be highly reliable with no interruptions to operation, and ideally would have a small footprint with no special infrastructure required in a customer’s lab. Finally, we wanted r