System capabilities and features:

• Automated cell collection and deposition of any adherent and suspension cells without pretreatment or specialized culture dishes
• Automated cell collection and deposition of individual multicellular sphere from 3D cultures without pretreatment or specialized culture dishes
• Automated cell collection and deposition of cells from microfluidic chips without pretreatment or specialized culture dishes
• Automated microdissection from native and fresh frozen tissue sections (up to 500 µm for some tissues) including brain, lung, liver, spleen, kidney, etc.
• Two collection modes: single cell collection and single cell pooling
• Protocol for automatic collection of regions of interest (ROIs) from fixed tissues (e.g. FFPE) using tissue liquefying approaches
• Target size from few micrometers to a few hundred ensuring wide spectrum of collection conditions
• Fully adjustable parameters for pulse duration, vacuum and pressure strengths, speed, and capillary rinsing sequence
  Instant calculation of applied force for collection or deposition provided
• Single cell adhesion assay permitting comparative and direct adhesion/detachment assays for multiple single cells

• Data storage and retrieval as a tab delimited file
• Image analysis and collection inspection with prior and post image recording of each collection event
• Collections in both bright and dark fields
• Unprecedented flexibility for collection-deposition modes that can be performed from plate to plate, plate to slide, slide to plate, slide to slide, slide to 48-well plate (enables compatibility with 96 plate formats), slide to PCR tubes, and plate to PCR tubes
• Simplified calibration sequence and several default presets for standard collection protocols
• Compatibility with standard biological safety cabinet and cell culture hood
• High viability of collected cells for efficient clonal expansion of collected cells
• Full compatibility with single cell analysis protocols