Unveilng the Applied Biosystems SeqStudio Flex Genetic Analyzer for Human Identification
Watch how the Sacramento County Crime Lab DNA analysts Flex their Power in the unveiling of the new SeqStudio Flex Genetic Analyzer.
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I'm Nick Andrews, product manager at Thermafisher Scientific,
part of the human identification team, or HID as it's known.
Today we're here in sunny Pleasanton, California, the home of the HID Research
and Development team.
We have something super exciting to share with you today. We are ready to
unveil the latest and
greatest genetic analyzer, the Seek Studio Flex. Now you may know that the Seek
Studio Flex has
been available for the research community, but we're ready for forensic prime
time. So today we have
three forensic experts from the Sacramento County Crime Lab who are here to put
it through its
paces. They'll get to see all the greatest features like the four-plate deck
with continuous plate
loading, sample reprioritization, the integrated data collection software, and
the remote monitoring
and remote troubleshooting features. I know this instrument is going to blow
them away and it's
going to blow you away too. So let's go meet the team. I cannot wait to see
what they think.
My name is Ryan Nickel and I work for the Sacramento County Crime Lab. I'm a
criminalist there and
I'm also a crime scene lead at the laboratory. I'm Natalie Jones. I also work
at the Sacramento
County Crime Lab as a criminalist and I'm also the local codist administrator.
I'm Danielle Frost.
I'm also a criminalist at the Sacramento County Crime Lab and I'm in training.
Thank you so much
for introducing yourselves and thank you very much for coming in. This is great
. You all seem to
have a lot of different experiences so this is going to be a really exciting
time. Just to confirm,
you're all forensic scientists and none of you are paid actors. No, I'm not
trying to say it.
Right. So what do you actually know about the Sikh Studio Flex? It's been out
for the research
community for a while so have you heard anything about it? Nothing. Only the
name which I saw in
the email that we got. CE Instrument. Yep, that's right. It's our brand new
latest and greatest
genetic analyzer that we have. It got released for our research community a
while ago and now we're
ready to avail it for the HID market. So we want you guys to be the first look
at this instrument.
So we're the first forensic scientists to this. You're going to be the first
forensic scientist
in the world to touch this instrument. Wow, it's exciting. Well, then this is
exciting.
This is going to be exciting. It's cool. It's going to be great. So if you had
a new CE Instrument
for your lab, what would you want it to do? Would there be anything you'd be
looking for?
I would probably something along the lines of if one plate is running, if you
could actually load
a plate on while the other plate is running would be great. That would be a big
help in our laboratory
for sure. Glad you say that. I think it would be nice to be able to load more
than two plates.
Four, maybe six. That way we can get everyone at the lab working on at the same
time and just
turn the instrument on and let it go. I would love for the software to be
really user-friendly and
to be able to easily load on your plate and press buttons. Say go.
And you mentioned that you were currently in training. So how has it been
learning how to use
CE in the application of forensic DNA? It's been challenging just learning
memorizing the steps.
There's so many steps that come with the CE in managing the software. So it's a
question of
where do I look for this button? It's kind of hidden away in this corner. So
that's been difficult.
Right. Yes. I know for my time in the lab. You all have 3500s in your lab,
correct?
Yes. So what do you like using about the 3500 or how has it helped you?
I like the anode and cathode buffer that it's just you don't have to load it or
make any
mixture. It comes in a pre-made box. You can throw that right on. I also like
the,
it scans the polymer for us and tells us how many injections. So that's nice. I
like that we have
our lab uses 24 capillaries so we can get through a lot of samples pretty quick
Yeah, we use USBs. So we have to go into the run room, load it onto the USB,
take it back to our
desk, load it into the software. So I hadn't thought about that but that would
be nice if we could
like remote into that computer from our desk, pull our data, put it right into
the software.
I would love that. Yeah. I'm sure actually other analysts that are, you know,
we're allowed to work from home a couple days a week would actually like to
remote in, get their
data and actually analyze data from home. If you need some re-injections, you
don't have to worry
about re-plating when you come in the next day. I'd be cool. Can this
instrument tell us at our
desk that something's wrong? We can pop in there and fix it. Well, I don't want
to give too much
away but it might have some of these features that you've been looking for. I
like it. I'm pretty
happy that you brought these up but I think maybe we should probably get in
there and actually see
this instrument. All right. Let's see it. Cool. Let's do it.
Okay. Oh Ryan, Natalie, Danielle, Yiga Beaver. I would very much like to
introduce to you
the new six new blocks. Wow. Very sweet. Yes. That is cool. No, can I have it?
Yeah. How can we
touch it? Go ahead. I had my phone. Now you can get in there. Like the looks
very similar
back there. Yeah. Can we take a closer look? Please. I'm assuming touch screen.
I want to
know how many plates. Can I touch the screen? Can we open it? Yeah. Boom. Four
plates guys.
Four. You can see the drawers unlocked. Go ahead. To oh, they're there. They're
there.
Yep. That's fun. So you can load while it's running. Yes.
Continuous plate loading. Sample re-prioritization. So you can load a plate. It
could be injecting.
You could then load another plate. You could say my injections more important.
You could put that
to the top of the list and it will take that plate. You could have four plates
in there.
When one plate is finished, you could open that drawer to take it off and there
's a new spot open
again. You could maybe wait until the end of the day, load four plates at once
and it can just run
all night and then you can come back into data in the morning. I know one of
your concerns might
have been about, well, what happens if there's an injection failure or
something like that?
But this also has a remote monitoring. So you can get alerts at your computer.
You can get up on
your phone. You can even do re-injections from your phone with this instrument.
So if you are working
remotely, you can do that. Yes. And for those of you who maybe use a 31-30 back
in the day,
while you have the barn doors, this instrument has the same type from there.
Very cool. Easy to get
in there. Obviously your oven door. You may not be able to newly designed array
as well, so it's
actually easier to install than even the 3500. I love that. It looks easier too
. You can kind of
see just where the little buttons are there. Pop in out. Exactly. So can I open
the drawer right
now to the instrument? Yeah, as long as that screen says the drawer is unlocked
, you can open that drawer
at any point. Go ahead. My question was, is there like an arm that kind of
grabs those plates and
takes it up to be analyzed? That's exactly right. So the arm will pick up the
plate and move it up
to where the capillaries are, so you can actually do the injection itself.
So that drawer is unlocked at any point during the run, so you can load plates.
The only time it
would be locked is when an injection is in place. Just for safety reasons, you
've got high voltage
running through there. But otherwise you can load plates on there. That screen
will also tell you
when you have plates that are present on there, so you can see what is linked
and you know if there's
available space on it. And do this plates set in or do they clip in? They just
sit on top of there.
So as long as you put them in that plate cradle, then they just sit in there
and they wait for the
arm to come and pick them up. Very cool. What about the runtime? It's actually
about the same as the
3500, so it's kind of around the same time that you had before. A couple of
other features while we
have the drawer open, there's also an integrated barcode scanner in there. So
if you use barcoated
plates, it can read that so that you actually know what you're linking and you
can verify it.
As before, you just have to make sure that you put the plate in the right place
This time you don't. I see two USB ports right there. Is that to bring in our
data and it automatically
kind of populates into the screen there? So we knew that there's obviously a
lot of different
options that you can have when you want to transfer data. This instrument does
have cloud
connectivity and local area network as well. So you can network the instrument
on your local
area network in the lab. You can set up your plates from your office and you
can have those plates
loaded directly onto the instrument through a piece of software called plate
manager,
which we'll show you in a bit. And then you could also do a USB, so you could
put it into like your
standard CSV or text file, load it onto the instrument, or you could do it
through the cloud.
So you could use plate manager on the cloud, set up your plate and it will
remotely send that
plate to the instrument itself. That's cool. A bunch of different options.
One thing I did want to do is introduce you to two of our R&D scientists who've
been working
really hard on the validation of this instrument. They are going to help us set
up a run and get
the instrument going and teach you how to use the instrument thoroughly. So
what do you say we go
meet them? Yeah. All right. Hi everybody, my name is Dan Sunil. I'm a staff
scientist and
a summer fisher. I've been working on this project for over one year. So today
I'm going to show you
how to use the plate manager. That's a software used for creating your files
for running the
samples on six U2FLEX. So we have two different versions. One version is on the
cloud. Another
version is on the desktop. So this is the version on cloud. So you can create
your file from the
scratch by clicking on this guy here, or you can open a file which has been
saved on cloud,
or from your computer. Or if you want to use a recently used file, you can
click on this one.
You can check, see whether it's correct or not. If everything is correct, so
you can send this to
the machine directly. You can choose multiple instruments at the same time and
click on OK.
So then this file would be sent to your instruments. Or you can just choose one
of them. So like
today, I'm going to just send this one to this instrument. So after you see it,
you just click
OK. So now the file is on your instrument. You are ready to run your sample on
the instrument.
And also I'm going to show you how to create a file using the plate manager. I
will be using
the desktop version today. So I'm going to show you how to create a plate file
from the scratch.
So to do that, just click on this one here. Then you get all of these things by
default.
You can change your name here. You can change the name of the file. Or you can
just use the default
file name. If you say OK, all the parameters here are correct. So you click on
Next.
Then you can click on the carbon. You want to put your samples in. And then you
can come here.
From here, you choose the injection protocol. So today, I'm going to show you
how to
choose this one. That's for the J6 die. So after you click on that, see all the
other parameters,
you know, show up here. After that, you click on here. So then you can put the
name of the files
in there. So what I do, I just, you know, I have prepared everything. So I just
copy the thing here
and then paste it to the software. Sample name, I click on this one and control
V.
So then the file names are pasted here. And also you can put the panel names
here.
So these are the panel names. All of them here are used globe file, IQC panel.
So click on the
software here. So then you get to this panel. Okay, so you click on the first
one.
You click on control V here. So in the file, these are the panel names. And
then I put the
k-link here. I highlighted everything here and then control C.
And put it into the first custom fields. Then control V. Okay, after that, you
go here, you save it.
And then it's saved. After you saved, you can put send it to the instrument. Or
you can export it
into USB drive. So I can export it to either my computer or USB drive. So save.
Now it's saved in this USB drive. And then I'm ready to use it.
Is the computer attached or connected to the instrument at all?
Yeah, so this computer is connected to the instrument through Wi-Fi. Gotcha.
Yeah, nice. And at our lab, we use an Excel program.
Yeah. Our sample names and information. So we would be able to export that in
like a
CSV file and then load it into the software rather than manually setting up our
plate.
Yeah, so you can do that. So basically after you set up the plate using plane
manager,
or you have a CSV file installed in the on your computer or USB drive.
So instead of a computer, can you use your phone to do this?
Yeah, you can use your smartphone. Do the same thing. You can monitor your rung
and also you can unlink or link your plate. If you found that after you go home
or if you are somewhere else far, far away, if you just thought, "Oh, I made a
mistake."
So you can make the revision of your protocol using your cell phone or your
computer remotely.
Nice. That's really cool. A good feature.
Yeah. Now the plate is in the same location. You don't even need to come here
to unlink the plate.
You can just use that with your... Or set my injection before his.
I also really loved that each injection was a different color. That was very
pleasing to the eye.
Yeah, exactly. Me too.
So if there's somebody at your lab that always thinks their case is the most
important and wants
to jump in front of everybody all the time, is there a way to prevent plates
from getting
bumped to the front? I think that would be a very good feature. But all these
things should
be tracked in the SAE feature. So we could know who jumped in front of my run.
Got it.
Hi, my name is Jimmy Lee. I am a staff engineer at Thermo Fisher. I will be
showing you the 6-3D
of flex. So this is the new instrument. So I'll have Ryan come and play with
the instrument if you
want to. Sure. All right. So if you want to load, I know Leonton helps you set
up a plate.
Right? So here I'm going to hand you that plate. Okay. You can open the drawer.
So there's positions A, B, C and D. Already two have been filled. So you can
put it in C or D.
Okay. I'm going to go with D. Oh, I already... Oh, ZZ. Slide it in. There you
go. It will lock
once you close it. But now you can link your plate, which has already been
loaded on by Leonton.
So click link plate. Yep. Go to my instrument. And it's right there, the demo 8
-cap.
And then you can check all of the properties. So you click on application.
Click on application.
Oh, there it is. Okay. ZZ is already on HID 96-wool plate 3600 meter pop-4.
Click done.
Go to plate screen. And here we're going to do an injection from column two.
Okay. Yeah. If you
want to see what it is, you can go and highlight it. And those are your
parameters. And you can
click on the pencil button. And then you can scroll and see all the
configurations. Nice.
I stand there. Okay. For the most part, you have your J6 sample in there. Yep.
Click done.
And when you're ready to run, click start. Start around. Yeah.
Is there a way to check the names of the samples that are in there? Go back to
that pencil.
You can go to sample name. Click on multiple. And here is where you can enter
all of your names in.
Oh, gotcha. Austin's already pre-named him here. Right. There's the eight. And
then you go to sample
type and change the... You can go there. And then he's the first one to a
little glatter.
The rest are sample. Gotcha. Okay. Cool. Yeah. And then...
And then... Start. Start around. There you go. Right on.
You'll do some pre-checks to make sure the consumables are not expired. And
they'll give you an estimated
end time. And there it goes. Nice. That starts up really fast. Yeah, it did.
Did it have to pre-heat?
So if you didn't preheat your oven, then it will have to pre-heat. You can
actually do that
before you run. If you hit that speedometer symbol on the top. Yep. If you
scroll to the left,
there is a pre-oven option. But it's already heating up right now. So it's
disabled. Okay. So you don't have to worry about that. But you see the oven
temperature is already
at 31 degrees. So... Do you guys recommend pre-heating? Or is it not necessary?
If it's already warmed up,
it'll run faster. How long to preheat? Maybe like 10 minutes before you start
your run. Yeah.
I like that the things you can't select are grayed out and things you can are
blue.
So you can also turn on the LED to highlight some of the instrument stuff. So
...
There. Turn on some of the consumables. Since it's running, you can't really
open the door.
But there's that CBC buffer right there. It's going with the polymer pouch and
then the ABC
buffer. Same array. Slightly different from the 3500, but similar format here.
So this is the 24
cap array. Okay. So you open the oven and you just easily install any one that
you want to.
Okay. Did you change anything on the consumables as far as like they can be
only be on the instrument
for two weeks? Yeah. So if you go back to the right on the screen, it shows you
all of your
status that the consumables. So the capillary, how many injections that's left,
the polymer,
and the installation date and the expiration date as well as your buffer. And
here's your spatial
calibration, your remaining injections, and then all the calibrations that were
done for your
die sets that you can run. And then on this side, you should see some of the
maintenance stuff that
needs to be done. Some of them you might need a software update from time to
time, but it'll tell
you when you need to do all your maintenance. Okay. And like the wizards kind
of for that stuff.
Yeah. Good. Yeah. You want to go to that, the X out of that? Sure. Click on
action. Click on
maintenance. Yep. And then maintenance wizards. So here you have a list of
anything you want to do
for maintenance. You can change your array, change your polymer type, change
your buffer,
change your polymer. And each of them have a video embedded so you can actually
watch some of them
for a little bit. So now, like I showed you before, you can actually run
multiple plates at a time.
So click home. So now the, it's unlocked so you can open it up. So you put that
in position to see.
All right. Oh, lock again. But now you can link a plate. So create a new plate
file.
And here you can name your plate. So just click plate name. Yep. Type whatever
you
today's day. Okay. Blade two. All right. Enter. Go to application type.
Like that. Change it from sequencing to XID. Yeah. Done. Yeah. Done. Go to your
plate.
And then you can click on the pencil button. Click on injection protocol. One
time. Yep. And then
you can pick which die set you want to run. Okay. And then you can change any
of the
problems. So this injection protocol free populates these fields for you. If
you want to do any of
the custom ones, you can change them here. So done. Done. And start. Start. So
will it run in the order
that you set it? So this will run after that first one is done. If you wanted
to change it,
since it's already started, you can't do that. But you go to run queue, you'll
see the order of
things that will be done. So I can take plate two and go right. Right. It's
like top of the list.
Right. So these ones are completed. So plates D is running. So your plate C is
going to run
afterwards. So it's in queue. And it'll show you the estimated start at end
time. Okay. So you have
to remember where you loaded it. Exactly. Okay. So you can click close. And if
these since these are already done, you can actually look at some of the data
on there. So you click on
the screen. Click real sample list. So that's what we ran. This is just the
installation run.
So you click done. Click on action. So you can either unlink, but you want to
look at the data,
click on the green icon. And that's what we were with run on that plate. So you
can use this
e-gree or the screen to like scroll through, expand that blue bar if you want
to. That's cool.
No. Oh. Click on any of those menu, the bullet point buttons.
And then you can select dies that you want to see. Oh.
Yep. So you just turned out blue. Oh, turn them off. Okay. Yep. So now you're
just looking at
the size standard orange. Oh, there you go. And then when you want to bring the
samples back in,
just click on the color again. Yeah. Right. And on the right side, there's
another option where you
can zoom in and. Oh, there you go. And then the middle button. It's fine. It's
your EPT. So it
shows you the record of all of your, your, your run, nice to the oven
temperature,
your current, your voltage throughout your entire run. So same thing, same
touch face,
touch me in the face. So, and then when you're done with that, just click done.
Click done.
I like that black background. It's so much easier to see the colors than the,
than the white.
Yeah. So let's say you want to run another plate. These all are filled. You can
unlink a plate by
just pressing B. Do you want to try it? Okay. Sure. I'll link the plate. It's
going to confirm that
you want to do that. So now you can open the drawer, remove the plate. And if
you have another
one ready to go, you can pop it. Oh, and it shows that it's removed. It will
sense the plate right
over there. Yep. It's all I could, I'll take that. Okay. So now you can, you
know, leave it there,
load another plate or, you know, awesome. Have it on standby. Yep. Very cool. I
noticed this is
your computer now. You're not hooked up to a computer. So currently, we, to do
like a reboot
of the system every two weeks, we'll shut down, shut down, restart, restart. So
you don't need to
do that for these? Yeah. If you want to restart for any reason, you can just
power off when no
place are on there, not running and power back on. Is that something
recommended or can we just
leave it on? You can leave it on. Yeah. There's no reason I would need to turn
it off though.
Nice. Nice. Yeah. We talked a little bit earlier about having the computer
in the instrument hooked up to Wi-Fi and being able to control it from your
phone and everything.
Forensic labs are always concerned about security. So I wanted to ask about
that.
Right. So these instruments can be controlled with SAE. So like the security
audit and the
e-signature functions. So if you have it on the network, if anyone logs in,
they have to have their
own account login. If they want to start a run, they have to have permission to
sign off. If you
don't want to have it on a network, you can have a local computer attached to
the instrument,
and it's also controlled by SAE. Wi-Fi free, just local area, just within house
. So no internet needed.
Yeah. And then as soon as this run is done, we can access it on the computer,
any computer,
with a Wi-Fi on our phone. Yeah. You can do remote access. I do have it on my
phone. It can
monitor run and I can show it yet as well.
So from our remote monitoring app, you can remote monitor your run. So here it
has a run that's
already completed. Click on your raw plot. And now Ryan, you can scroll the
data on the phone,
just like you would on the flex. Okay. You can see all the peaks. Yep. Yep. And
you can click on
different capillaries on top. And then you can filter by color. And then just
...
Let's do... Yeah. Apply. There you go. There's your size standard. Yeah.
Scroll and go to all the capillaries. Yep. Okay. And it will save your
preference on color. So...
All right. Nice. There you go. So what's coming off the instrument is being
correctly...
screamed to your phone. Exactly. Yep. Like it. Thank you.
So we'll have a look at the six-year flex a bit. I know we talked about how the
consumables are the
same, except from the array. So I just wanted to show you really quickly how
you can change the
array in that sort of process. But you could open it up these big barn doors.
And then if you want
to open up the array, I mean, this will get you to do it. Just show you how
easy it is. Open the
array door. Unscrew the detection cell. Loosen the cap bundle. There you go.
And then loosen the
bottom door. It's down here. There you go. And you can slide that out slightly.
And then you can just use this little handle here and just pull that out of
there.
And it will hold it in place. Let's remove it. Great. Where am I? So the very
nice thing about
these new arrays are they have to make it easier to do it one-handed. They lock
in place. So you can
hold it to and you can install the array one-handed. So it'll stay like this
when you want to load it
back into the instrument. Just slide it in place like that. And then you can
release it. Feed it
into the bottom. The detection window is automatically there. It's in the right
place. The instrument
knows where it is. So you can just tighten everything back up again. Close the
doors.
Tighten your football. The feral at the end. And that's it. That's changing the
array.
Easy, easy. Wow. Very easy. The nice thing about this instrument, the very cool
thing is,
and when you change your array, what do you normally have to do after that?
You run a special, a spectral and a spatial. Right. So you run the spatial
because that's how the
instrument knows where each of the capillaries are. You run the spectral
because that's teaching
the instrument the die set that you're going to be using for that. Right. And
to make sure it's applied
to this new array. The nice thing about this instrument, you only need to run
that spectral once.
That's crazy. Like throughout the entire life of the instrument.
Correct. The instrument will remember the spectral you have run as long as you
're running the same
die set for that chemistry. It will continue to apply that every time you
change the array.
That's really cool. It's incredible. Yeah. That's amazing. I'll get them.
Remember
it. It makes sure your data is still there. The only time you will ever need to
run the spectral
is if you change die sets. So a different type of chemistry. Or you are
troubleshooting. Wow.
So I can save you a lot of time running this instrument. Especially it's one of
those things.
It's like, I feel like we do it, but not enough to really like learn it well
every time you do it.
So it's we never have to learn it again. Exactly. Break out the manual every
time.
Every single time. And the other thing. So obviously a lot of these things on
the instrument,
you don't have to do that often. So what we do have on this instrument as well
is to help you
is called the learning center. So if you go to actions and then learning center
from here,
you have helpful videos that you can run that will walk you through when you
need to do
different steps on the instrument. So if you want us to learn about how to set
up a run on the instrument.
And it will take you through all the steps you need to on how to run and set up
a run.
Wow. That's cool. For me, I learned a lot better with videos too. Like, hey,
here's how you do this.
Instead of like, you know, reading something that makes it a lot, a lot more
difficult to be like,
oh, take the plate and put it here or do this. It's like, oh, video shows you
exactly how to do it.
So now we have everything for a visual kinesthetic learners, no matter what you
do.
Yep. This is really great for new analysts also. New analysts, maybe analysts
who haven't
run the CE in a while, you know, you're just coming back into the lab. It's
just making it so that
it's easy. It's approachable and you just know what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah.
So you can always feel
confident when you run the CE in a flex. So back to the, you know, kind of old
school almost like
barn doors feels nice. But I also like the familiarity with it too. It has kind
of this,
you know, you haven't changed everything inside. We don't have to learn an
entirely new instrument.
It's just almost like an upgrade to the instruments with a whole bunch of cool
features.
All right, guys. We've had a really exciting day and an action-packed day
learning all about
the CE to do your flex. I really just want to know what you guys think about it
. It's awesome.
I think the design is really sleek. It's user-friendly. You can take your data
on the go.
Yes, I love the like onboard computer. So you don't have to restart and link
these two separate
things and that you can remote in and from home or from your desk, monitor your
run,
set re-injections, put your plate before your co-workers. Exactly. Yeah. And I
even heard you
ask some really important questions about data security and stuff while you
were there. I mean,
that is something that we know is a huge challenge for forensic labs. The world
is moving connectivity
and cloud-based things. And that's why at Thermofisher, we have a group that is
dedicated to testing
vulnerabilities on our software and our cloud-based systems. And we have teams
that are actually
there helping you so you can bring online and work with your IT groups within
your lab to figure out
what is possible to do within your lab. Because what we're finding is there's a
lot of stuff
that we can actually do and still be very secure. The old-school methods of
actually using USBs
is not the secure method anymore. It's actually having connectivity with
encryptions and secure
passwords. So it's going to be really exciting for the future. And this
instrument is definitely
going to take us there. I also like the footprint of this instrument. You know,
for something that
can hold four plates and kind of run all these things, it's about almost the
same size as the 3500.
So it's taken up a nice small amount of space. You know, as long as it's deep
enough at your lab,
you can get a couple of these, I think. And you don't need that control
computer either,
if you don't need to. So in terms of actual bench real estate, you're a lot
less. Yeah.
And being able to put another plate in the queue while one is running, that
feature I absolutely
love. I've spent a lot of time waiting for my co-workers to finish up their run
before I can
even start prepping my plate. And how do you think that this would benefit you
in your lab?
New instruments or kind of new technology comes out like once every five years
or so I feel like,
and this is just kind of taking us to that next step of, you know, the fact
that it has the Wi-Fi
capability or the cloud-based capability, it just kind of has that feel of, hey
, we are getting
into that next generation of instrumentation. So I like it. You know, it's
staying current with
everybody else's kind of phones and computers and what we're used to instead of
running on
some old instruments. Right. Exactly. And if your lab is not ready for that,
you can also do it
the standard way as well. So it's very versatile in that sense. But it's going
to be ready for
the future when we're there. Yeah, the fact that you still have the USB, you
know, people like to
get in their steps still. So it's like, hey, you don't have to use your phone.
Go and get those steps
in, walk to the instrument again, take it off and take it back to your desk.
And what do you think
about the onboard learning center? Do you think that will help you in the lab?
I do. Because I know
sometimes when you have to like put new polymer on and you haven't had to do
that in eight months,
I have to pull out that manual and figure out how to reload my polymer or
something. So now I can
just play, see how to do it, pop it on. I don't have to worry about it. Yeah,
the fact that you can
actually pause the video too and do that while you're doing it. The doors are
separate from the
computer screen. So you can just pause it, do that, okay, click play and
continue on. It's nice.
And watching the video of it happening in real time is a lot easier than having
to read through
the wizard like we do now. So that's really nice. And what about the startup
sequence?
Have you guys think about that? I think it's great because currently, like I
said earlier with the
computer next to your instrument, you have to turn this off, turn this off,
turn this on, turn this
on, wait for a green light, open your software. So now it's just one button,
turn the instrument on
and you're ready to go. And what do you think about the array? This was
absolutely amazing. So can I?
Yeah, please. So you literally just squeeze that and it releases. That's really
cool. That was
something I didn't know that I needed. Yeah, exactly. No more fumbling around
with the detection cell
window, trying to get that in place with the magnets and then making sure it's
just right.
Not breaking it. Not breaking the array. That's key as well. But yeah. Yeah, I
was always worried.
I'm like, "Oh, capillary needs to be changed." I'm like, "Maybe I'll just
pretend I didn't see it on
the instrument. Someone else will change it because it's like this thing is
like, you know, kind of
all over the place. So it's nice that it's everything's kind of in place. You
know, a couple clicks,
a couple knobs to turn and it's in and ready to go. Yeah, you can do it 100.
No more three hands and tape kneaders. I know we've had an action-packed day.
It has been super
exciting from our side. Then we're Fisher Scientific has loved having you here.
So thank you so much
for taking the time. It has been great. I really hope you got a lot out of it
and I can't wait until
the next video. Thanks so much for having us. This is wonderful. I had a blast.
You were the first
accredited forensic scientist to do a run on the HID version of the Seac Studio
Flex. This is great.
Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Thank you.
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