The automation of biological laboratory assays may require lengthy incubations of reagents on the work surface of a pipetting robot. Commercial devices are readily available for keeping these reagents accessible and warm, but there are few existing technologies for storing accessible reagents below the freezing point of water. Here, we introduce a low cost, small footprint, robot accessible reagent cooler, based on compressor technology capable of acting as an enzyme freezer or extreme cold reagent storage device.
2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Correspondence: Andrew D. Ellington, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 1 University Station A4800, University of Texas, Austin, TX; Phone: +1.512.471.6445; Fax: +1.512.471.7014
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