Implen | Eton Bioscience Video Transcript
Tony Chen:
We love their service.
James Ho:
It’s been really helpful in terms of increasing our efficiency in our lab.
Tony Chen:
Everything worked out perfect. My name is Tony Chen, and I’m the founder of Eton Bioscience. I founded Eton Bioscience in 2003 and the focus at that time was Sanger DNA sequencing. So far we have four locations. We started in San Diego and three branches in the east coast. We measure thousands of DNA samples each day, and in the past we used NanoDrop™. There is one big thing we wanted to accomplish with the NanoDrop™, but we were unable to do, which is to connect a unit with our database so that when we measure the concentration of each sample, the data can be transmitted to our database directly and can be displayed on our order form directly. I was told by NanoDrop™ data, they didn’t provide such a function and they didn’t want to work with us. So I’m extremely happy that Implen wanted to work with us on this feature together. Took us three to four months and we finally accomplished this task.
James Ho:
Our IT team developed this page to basically record the concentrations that we’re getting from the NanoPhotometer onto our backend right here. Because of the API service that’s included on the NanoPhotometers that can get automatically transferred onto our order forms here, which we use in order to help with our techs when they’re doing their PCR assembly process.
Tony Chen:
So right now our process is a lot more efficient and all our technician’s lab is featured.
James Ho:
My name is James. I’m the lab manager here at Eton Bioscience for our Sequencing Department, and we make use of the NanoPhotometers that you guys at Implen have provided for us and they’ve been really helpful for us.
Tony Chen:
About two years ago I started to look around to find alternatives to NanoDrop™ and I found Implen. I don’t need to do any calibration to the machine and the pricing, and I couldn’t believe it.
James Ho:
Us being a service company, we do help out a lot of research labs, and the sheer volume of how many concentrations we have to do throughout the day, it doesn’t compare to how much more we’re able to do now with the n50 versus when we were using our old NanoDrop™ lights.
Tony Chen:
From then on, we purchased more and more NanoPhotometers from Implen. We are about to replace all our NanoDrops™ probably in this year. And right now we have about 13 to 15 units all together.
James Ho:
Having the option of being able to record eight or 12 readings at once. You know, basically running as if we have like eight or 12 N50’s at a time.
Tony Chen:
So it’s a big plus for our business.
James Ho:
Even just having the little idle animation just helps to bring a little bit of life to the lab as well. It’s silly, but like it is something just like, you know, in the mundane times in the lab, it’s just funny to look over, you know?