Biotage^® V-10 Touch

The V-10 Touch can be fitted with a solvent management module, including a pump and a sampling device. This allows aliquots of solvent to be pumped into the V-10 Touch from large volume containers such as a beaker, and evaporated down into a single or multiple vials with the addition of a carousel. The evaporated sample can also be reconstituted into another solvent. This set up is ideal for compound storage and for automated solvent swapping.

Fitting the V-10 Touch with a carousel allows multiple samples to be evaporated sequentially. The system interface allows samples to be added to the queue and prioritised, and methods to be set for each vial, ideal for busy laboratories where multiple users need rapidly evaporated samples. This option can be combined with solvent management or a liquid handler to allow samples to be preferentially evaporated into specific or even multiple vials.

Interfacing the V-10 Touch with a liquid handler allows for a wide variety of applications. Racks of samples can be added to the liquid handler and evaporated sequentially into one or (with a carousel option) multiple vials, allowing applications like the automated removal of HPLC liquid fractions. Different sample sizes can be evaporated, and samples can be added and prioritized during operation.

For all users with a strong need for integration or remote control, Biotage offers a completely separate application programming interface (API), which allows the user to write their own integration software and communicate remotely with the Biotage V-10 Touch hardware using a pre-defined protocol.

The API is ideal for larger integration setups, where many functions must interact together simultaneously.

The V-10 Touch API is based on ASCII strings sent over UDP. The protocol contains command/reply pairs, asynchronous events, and a data channel that your software can subscribe to.

It is designed to be as simple as possible, with a number of commands that enable all features of the hardware. It is possible to control the lift, the carousel, the pump, and to start off an evaporation. In the meantime, the data channel will continuously report values for temperature, pressure, and a number of other parameters.

Biotage provides a complete guide to the V-10 Touch API in terms of a reference manual for developers. The reference manual guides the customer in their software development interface. The API requires some knowledge in programming, especially network programming.