Tape Station

The Agilent TapeStation system is an automated electrophoresis solution for the sample quality control of DNA and RNA samples. The system integrates an instrument, data processing software, reagents, and ScreenTape devices specific for DNA and RNA. It is suitable to analyze size, quantity, and integrity of your samples. It fits for example in a next-generation sequencing (NGS) or biobanking workflow with low to high throughput delivering highly precise analytical evaluation.

Advantages of automated electrophoresis over traditional gel electrophoresis include dramatically reduced samples (1-2 µL) and reagent consumption, significantly faster analysis time (1-2 minutes per sample) and data analysis. Additionally, the easy to use ScreenTape technology enables less hands-on activities during sample preparation. Each ScreenTape device has 16 lanes so that each sample is analyzed in an individual lane, completely eliminating contamination and carryover. The unique benefit of the TapeStation system is the flexibility to run any sample number at a constant cost per sample.

For total RNA quality determination, this system offers the RINe - RNA Integrity Number. RINe represents the relative ratio of the signal in the fast zone to the 18S peak signal. The values obtained are presented from 1 to 10, whereby highest quality RNA is assigned a RINe value of 10. Calculated automatically by the 2200 TapeStation software, RINe provides an objective and reliable numerical assessment of the integrity of eukaryotic total RNA degradation.

The 2200 TapeStation system has the flexibility to run any sample number between 1 and 96 at a constant cost per sample.

DNA kits:

Kit	Fragments size (bp)	Volume to submit	Quantitive range (ng/ul)
D1000	35 - 1000	2ul	1 - 50
High Sensitivity D1000	35 - 1000	3ul	0.01 - 5
D5000	100 - 5000	2ul	1 - 50
High Sensitivity D5000 *Not routinely in stock	100 - 5000	3ul	0.01 - 5
Genomic DNA *Not routinely in stock	200 - 60,000	2ul	10 - 100