BioTX
BioTX由貝勒醫學院的實驗室技術人員James Frost 于2003年創建,曾經成功發明寡核苷酸(DNA)合成儀,并于1998年出售給Sigma Aldrich公司。盡管在Genosys詹姆斯在工程、化學、自動化、軟件及數據庫開發中遇到的諸多挑戰,但他帶給BioTX自動化在生命科學和法醫領域巨大的機會,在那里他積累大量的人才和開發技能。同時也帶動Genosys以及工程專業的學生,非常有才華的高中實習生積極創新,并轉化成有用的產品。
自2003年3月1日起,BioTX自動化公司生命科學,生物制藥,法醫,和工業市場提供簡單的自動化解決方案。
BioTX主要產品
TED跟蹤證據的收集和觸摸DNA采集:
2010年,BioTX推出T.E.D. (跟蹤/觸摸證據裝置)。這一革命性的專利申請中的收集裝置,使犯罪現場調查收集到直接觸摸DNA和微量物證收集于準備的小瓶。這個過程所耗費的時間跟傳統的收集證據過程省去許多步驟。在實驗室中,可以比以前的更快,更準確地分析證據。
WellAware:智能半自動化的光引導吸取導航系統
BioTX于2005年推出WellAware。 WellAware是以燈光和語音引導移液系統,幫助分析師每次把特定的樣本放置于準確的位置。這是一個理想的伴侶實驗室,移液系統是復雜的。就像汽車導航系統,WellAware有助于實驗室分析師導航到合適的樣品,試劑到孔板正確的孔。是如何成功的WellAware?在2007年的貿易展,BioTX要求與會者現場測試WellAware移液系統。結果發現,與他們的手工方法相比他們不僅能夠提高33%的速度,但錯誤率下降了78%。
定制設計和工程:自定義機器人和儀器:
BioTX采用快速自動化發展系統(RADS),迅速發展為自己的產品開發,以及為客戶定制的工程項目的自動化生產的原型。 BioTX使用RADS創建機器人血沖卡機和在培養皿中的細菌操作機器人。 BioTX還采取了其他自定義項目。更令人興奮的是已經幫助阿卜杜拉國王科技大學(KAUST),沙特阿拉伯建立了新的DNA設備中心。
BioTX Automation was founded in 2003, by James Frost who began his career in 1985, working as a lab technician for Baylor College of Medicine. His boss at the time, tasked him with a tricky problem: how to make thousands of synthetic oligonucleotides (DNA) in record time, inexpensively. His boss needed the DNA for his research. So they invented a machine that could make synthetic DNA faster and cheaper than anyone else. Out of that patented invention came Genosys, co-founded by James and Ken. Genosys grew from a company run out of a small closet at Baylor into a multimillion dollar entity that was sold to Sigma Aldrich in 1998. While at Genosys, James encountered numerous challenges in engineering, chemistry, automation, and software & database development. He has brought those accumulated talents and developed skills to BioTX Automation, where he looks for significant unmet challenges and opportunities in the life science and forensic arena. And he has brought along former employees from Genosys as well as engineering students and very talented high school interns to take ideas and turn them into useful products.