The MiniLumi is a brand new system for fluorescent and colorimetric gel documentation with 1-click image capturing. Typical applications include Ethidium bromide, Coomassie^® Brilliant Blue, SYPRO™ Orange, SYPRO™ Ruby, Silver stain and Q-Dots™. Outstanding features are the 2 Megapixel CCD camera, trans and epi illumination.
The MiniLumi offers high quality at affordable cost.

Applications

Wide range of biological samples which are stained with fluorescent or colorimetric (visible) dyes:

• Detection and quantitation of nucleic acid stains and labels, including Ethidium Bromide, GelStar™, Fluorescein, Coomassie® Brilliant Blue, SYPRO™ Orange, SYPRO™ Red, Silver Stain, SYPRO™ Ruby, Qdots™ and more
• TLC plates, autoradiograph, microplates, macroarrays, colony screening, RFLP/VNTR, Southern blots, colony hybridization and more
  

Real-time quality imaging

The MiniLumi captures the sharpest possible images with precise sample separation - thanks to its powerful CCD camera with high resolution.  Two different models are available, 1.4 and 2 Mpixels. The high speed zoom lens results in enhanced sensitivity, collecting maximum light from the sample, while maintaining sharp, clear images with minimal geometric and light distortion. With the semi-motorized zoom, iris and focus the MiniLumi offers user comfort and real-time image capturing at affordable costs.

Dark chamber

The DNR's smart chamber features a door status sensor to enable or disable UV illumination.

Fast, simple workflow

Easy to set up with a user-friendly interface, MiniLumi provides quick, accurate image acquisition and results, ensuring efficiency and productivity in the laboratory. Fully controlled by the PC, MiniLumi firewire interface connects easily to any laptop or PC.

Illumination

The MiniLumi is equipped with a built-in transilluminator with UV illumination and one WL converter. The 8-position filter wheel is equipped with one filter as a standard for Ethidiumbromide or SYBR dyes.  Additional filters can be easy replaced and inserted. A white light and UV epi illumination is installed.


Software

The MiniLumi instruments are delivered standardly with two software packages, GelCapture for imaging acquisition and GelQuant for image analysis.

GelCapture offers complete, automatic control of configuring, capturing, and saving sample images for analysis. GelCapture offers all important image settings adjustable as illumination, focus, brightness, binning and many more. 

GelQuant enables researchers to detect and analyze lanes and bands - even on distorted gel images. The GelQuant software automatically calculates molecular weights of the bands according to the standard marker lane.  A wide range of analysis tools are available as rotating and adjusting the image, background reducing and saving into different image formats (BMP, PNG, TIFF, JPG and DIB).

Specifications

Camera 

Type: CCD
Gradation: 16-bit (65,536 gray levels)
Resolution: 1360 (H) x 1024 (V); 1.4 Mpixels
                1600 (H) x 1200 (V) 2 Mpixels (optional)
Dynamic range: 3.4 orders of magnitude
Exposure time: 0.124 s- 1 min
 
Optics 
Super bright lens: F/1.2 8-48mm
Emission filters: 8 position filter wheel with 2 filter as standard

Illumination

Dark Chamber: DNR's smart dark chamber with door status sensor
Illumination modes: Trans-UV, Trans-WL converter
                           WL epi illumination, UV epi illumination
Excitation sources: 312nm, white light
                           254nm and 365nm (optional)

Software
Image capture: DNR’s GelCapture, free lifetime upgrade 
1D image analysis: DNR’s GelQuant
Optional: TL-100 (Nonlinear Dynamics)

The MiniLumi products are available in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, India, France, Switzerland, UK, Japan and USA.

For other countries please see the DNR Imaging Systems homepage.