Product FAQs | MGISP-Smart 8

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Q1:What is the product positioning of MGISP-Smart 8？who is the target customer?

A brief introduction of MGISP-Smart 8：

1. Pipettes:  8 flexible pipetting channels；

2. Modules:  temperature control module, shaker module,  magnet module ,heater shaker module and PCR module etc.

3. Comsumables:  tips, tubes, plates and reservoirs etc.

4. Software:  intuitive graphical desk and process editor, support parallel processes and cherry picking

It is a flexible, scalable and user friendly automated liquid handler which could be used as a worksation to perform various applications in the fields of genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, cellomics and others.

Typical customers are pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as institutions constituting the worldwide bio-pharma market.  it's intended for clinical and in-vitro diagnostics applications as well.  

Q2:What's the difference between Smart 8 and SP-100/960?

The main differences between MGISP-Smart 8, MGISP-100 and MGISP-960 are pipettes, hardware and library preparation throughput. In addition, MGISP-100 and MGISP-960 are mainly sold in standard configuration, while Smart 8 can be sold in standard configuration or customized according to customer's application requirements and  consumables.

Q3:What configurations/modules are available for the MGISP-Smart 8? How to identify what I need?

4 standard configurations: Config.1, Config.2, Config.3, Config.4,

2 hosts:  Host with HEPA, Host without HEPA

12 carriers:  Tube carrier A/B/C（Suitable for tubes）、Suspended Tip Carrier A（Suitable for tips）、Plate Carrier A/Combi. Carrier A（Suitable for microplates）、Single Well Reservoir Adapter A（Suitable for single well Reservoirs） and Combi. Carrier B/H/I/G/J（Contain functional modules）

5 optional function modules:  Shaker Module A、Magnetic Module A/B、Robot Scanner A、Deck Scanner A

8 adapters: Tube adapter A/B、Single Well Reservoir Adapter A、PCR Plate Adapter A/B、Deepwell Plate Adapter A、Multi-segment Adapter A-C

Please contact local FAS or PM for indentify the  configurations/modules in a certain scenarios.

Q4:Dose MGISP-Smart 8 have liquid level detection function?

Q5:What are the SP-Smart 8 pipettes' accuracy and precision?

Pipetting range: 1μL-1000μL

Accuracy:1 μL： CV≤8%；200 μL： CV≤1%；1000μL： CV≤1%

Precision: 1μL≤±10%；200 μL≤±2%；1000μL≤±1%

Q6:Any MGI-SP Smart 8 parameters I could proposed  for tender evaluation criteria？

Size: W: 1410mm，H:799mm，D:970mm (without HEPA module)

Net weight:  Approximately 220 kg (485 lb, without carries)

Voltage: 200-240V，50/60Hz

Rated power: 1500VA ~3500VA(not including modules on operation deck and optional modules)

Working environment:

Ambient temperature：15℃-35℃

Relative humidity：20%RH-80%RH, No condensation

Air pressure range：80-106kPa

There are 4 types of consumables available,  tips, tubes, microplates and reservoirs, as follows：

Tips：We recommend the use of MGI's T50, T200, T1000 conductive and non-conductive tips.

Tubes：0.5mL, 0.6mL, 1.5mL, 2mL, 5mL, 6mL, 10mL, 50mL centrifuge tubes or sample tubes.

Microplates：PCR Plates, Deepwell Plates and other 96-well SBS standard plates ,as well as Break-away PCR Plate, etc.

Reservoirs：50mL/100mL Single Well Reservoir made in MGI

For more information about the consumables, please refer to the brochure on MGI's website.

MGISP-Smart 8 provides  various solutions to customer , it is able to accelerate   workflows  such as library preparation, nucleic acid extraction and  reagents dispensing and preparation, cherry picking , sample pooling and normalization. We are continuing to work with our partners to expand our solution list，such as cell biology and synthetic biology.  

For library preparation, three applications including WGS, WES and RNA library preparation can be carried out on Smart 8, as an open platform it can be compatible with MGI's kits and  kits from third-party.

The Smart 8 minimizes aerosol and cross-contamination by using the HEPA module and  filter tips.

1) The HEPA module continuously refreshes the air within the instrument, reducing aerosol contamination.

2) MGI's filter tips decrease the risk of aerosol contamination during the worklow.

It differs from MGISP-960 mainly in throughput and flexibility

（1）The Smart 8 support nucleic acid extraction for any number of samples/run from 8-96 , and it is more flexible and automated, allowing directly pipetting  from tubes without manual transformation from tubes to plates. However, the TAT is longer than MGISP-960.

（2）MGISP-960 support  96 samples/run nucleic acid extraction with fixed throughput, however, its TAT is shorter than Smart 8.

The MGISP-Smart 8 is an open platform that enables users to customize hardware and scripts to meet their specific application needs. It supports third-party application kits,  if customer wants to develop their own application, please contact local FAS for help.

Q12:Which certificates  MGISP-Smart 8 has obtained at present? 

So far, MGISP-Smart 8 has obtained many international certifications such as CE(RUO/IVD), CB, CMETus, EAC, UK, etc. It has access to many major markets such as EU, North America, UK and EAC, and the instrument quality is guaranteed .