Lucidea Array Spotter - Question about machinery

Question

[Taylor]

Hello, I am an undergraduate intern at a genomics company that is downsizing. My understanding is they used to do all of their genome sequencing in house, but now it is much cheaper to outsource all of the lab work so they are getting rid of a bunch of machinery. I have done a lot of research on this particular item and have come up with absolutely nothing, does anyone know anything about it, any current day uses, if it would be of use to any universities or labs, etc. It's called the "Amersham Biosciences Lucidea Array Spotter 24Pen. It says it was manufactured in October of 2002. I will attach a photo below.

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

This is a microarray spotting/printing machine that was likely used to "print" oligos (complementary to specific genes etc) on array substrates (glass or some such). Nothing to do with sequencing. Sadly as with other technologies this is at best only of niche interest. It would likely be not economical to print arrays now for a lab.

If you need more information you may want to post in an experimental forum.

Edit: Page 22 from this PDF https://www.ualberta.ca/en/biological-sciences/media-library/mbsu/microarray/amersham-microarray-handbook.pdf has information about this spotter.

[Taylor]

Thank you so much!