Ramona is happy to announce the launch of our first MCAM™ Development Kit. All of our Multi Camera Array Microscopes (MCAM™) systems are designed around the biological needs of scientists studying model organisms and high-throughput pleat-based assays. Our hardware development kit allows teams to speed up the integration of the MCAM™ into their workflows by enabling automation engineers to develop the software tools their team needs, while the biologists finalize the details of their experimental workflows.

The MCAM™ Development Kit provides customers the opportunity to integrate existing automations with our software and vet our system in their application space without transporting the physical MCAM™ to the location of their integration team. With increased collaboration of teams across the world, the ability for integration engineers to have a physical simile of the MCAM™ enables them to decrease the amount of time it takes them to integrate the MCAM™ into a work-cell. Additionally, this hardware development kit provides Ramona with the chance to answer any questions regarding the integration of the MCAM™ from a physical and software perspective, and better understand how we help ease the integration of the MCAM™ into existing workflows.

Ramona’s MCAM™ gets its name from the array (24, 48 or 54) lenses and image sensors, allowing the user to see a massive field of view at microscopic resolution. Iterating on this value, we consider it imperative that our system is up to the standards of automated work cells screening hundreds of plates a day. With the MCAM™ Development Kit, users can get a sense of how the footprint of the system works in their lab space, and test our software for compatibility with their existing automation solution.

Our software package is already able to be integrated with popular automation software such as Biosero’s Green Button Go, and features an OpenAPI (https://docs.ramonaoptics.com/webapi) enabling users to integrate the MCAM™’s capabilities in their chosen pipelines.

By providing research facilities with a Development Kit, we’ll glean crucial information about the practical needs of our software. Our aim is always to work for the needs of the researcher, providing them faster results and analysis so that their time to decision is greatly decreased, facilitating easier procedures with quick solutions to testing Cell Viability, as well as breakthroughs in Drug Discovery and Behavioral Research.

Interested in testing an MCAM™ Development Kit at your lab? Please contact us through our website to schedule a time to discuss your application https://www.ramonaoptics.com/contact/

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