Success Story

“After we moved SGL near a train station in 2007, we began having problems with our array data. We ultimately traced the problem to high levels of ozone in the lab from air pollution. Fortunately, SciGene easily solved the problem by providing us with benchtop NoZone Workspaces to filter out the ozone. Our work with SciGene ultimately resulted in a joint publication on the effects of ozone on microarrays.”

-Lisa Shaffer, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Signature Genomic Laboratories from PerkinElmer, Spokane, WA.

Ozone Control Systems for Microarrays

Protect Fluorescent Dyes Throughout the Microarray Workflow

Ozone is a by-product of industrial pollutants that can destroy cyanine and other fluorescent dyes used to label biological samples for microarray analysis. Maintaining low ozone levels during microarray washing, drying and scanning is essential to assay reproducibility.

See “Effects of Ozone During Posthybridization Washes and Scanning”
Journal of Molecular Diagnostics Vol. 11, No. 6, November 2009 (PDF)

NoZone Workspaces are benchtop enclosures equipped with an external ozone filtration system that provide clean, ozone-safe and low light areas for microarray processing and scanning. Every filtration system is tested and certified at the factory to quickly and reliably maintain ozone levels below 5 parts per billion (ppb).

Protects sensitive fluorescent dyes
Eliminates costly re-tests due to ozone damage
Sets up easily from pre-assembled panels
No filters to replace
Ozone Filtration Performance Certificate included

Three NoZone Workpaces are available for ozone control in your laboratory:

NoZone WS Workspace — Features hand accessible opening for working inside the enclosure. Use with the Little Dipper Processor or other lab equipment when preparing samples and processing arrays.
NoZone TL Workspace — Tall enclosure for use with Agilent DNA microarray scanner, Roche NimbleGen MS200 scanner or similar microarray equipment
NoZone GP Workspace — Compact enclosure for GenePix (Molecular Devices), Innopsys scanners or other small equipment

If your instrument is not listed above, please have your dimensions ready and contact us to determine which product is best for you.

For Research Use Only

Product Suite

NoZone WS Workspace