The Virology Department at the Infection Control Division shall procure new equipment in 2014 for automatic cleaning of nucleic acid material from biological samples that include infection, especially virus, with the aim of detecting, identifying and characterising the virus.
The procured equipment shall renew an equivalent instrument (Roche MagNA Pure LC ), which is getting old. It is, besides, necessary to increase the current capacity due to an increased need for analyses.
We will request performance that is on a level with or better than the existing equipment, e.g. as regards biosafety, yield, process time and running costs. The are aiming for a capacity of at least 96 samples at a time, as well as good and reliable support and secure access to consumables.