OPUS RoboColumn Pre-packed Chromatography Colums

Used in the industry since 2007, OPUS RoboColumn pre-packed columns are designed to work with robotic fluid handlers for fully automated parallel chromatography.

Up to 96 RoboColumn pre-packed columns (8 column types in parallel) can be individually arranged on a 96-well array plate according to application requirements. Resin is contained to form a bed between two filter frits and validated with consideration to resin compression requirements, to ensure high efficiency, good asymmetry and robust chromatography performance.

96 well plate OPUS RoboColumn pre-packed chromatography column

OPUS® RoboColumn®
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OPUS® RoboColumn®
5 mm ID x 10 mm H; V = 200 µL

OPUS® RoboColumn®
5 mm ID x 30 mm H; V = 600 µL

OPUS® RoboColumn®
96-well plate

Click and quote OPUS® PD Pre-packed chromatography columns

 

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Configure and quote pre-packed columns for process development using this interactive tool.

When you are planning your next set of small-scale chromatography experiments, configure the columns online and obtain a quote in minutes. Simply login, select your format, volume and resin that meets your experimental design and add to cart. A quote with all details and pricing will be emailed to you within minutes. 

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 FLEXIBILITY

Flexibility with pre-packed convenience

  • Pre-packed with user-specified chromatography resin - over 300 resins
  • Consistently packed with correct axial compression
  • Operating linear flow-rate controlled by dispensing speed of the liquid handling workstation
  • Demonstrated scale-up and scale-down due to constant residence time
  • Large number of samples per time, ability to multiplex

 

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Available formats

Internal Diameter
Bed Height
Column Volume
cm mm cm mm mL µL
0.5 5.0 0.25 2.5 0.05 50
0.5 5.0 0.50 5.0 0.10 100
0.5 5.0 1.00 10.0 0.20 200
0.5 5.0 2.25 22.5 0.45 450
0.5 5.0 2.50 25.0 0.50 500
0.5 5.0 3.00 30.0 0.60 600


Minimum order is one row of 8 OPUS RoboColumn pre-packed columns with the same resin and column dimension.

 Automation

Automated parallel chromatography

Shorten process development time by performing parallel operation of OPUS RoboColumn pre-packed columns in robotic liquid handling workstations, implementing chromatography Design of Experiment (DOE) and QbD (Quality by Design). The combination of OPUS RoboColumn and Tecan robotic liquid handling workstations deliver a complete integrated platform for state of the art small scale protein purification.

Designed for robotic fluid handlers 

Compatitble with both Tecan Fluent and Freedom EVO liquid handling workstations

  • Simultaneous automated step-gradient elution into a 96-well plate
  • Subsequent analysis in an integrated plate reader
  • Flexible software wizard 

Rapid and simple AAV capture and polish DOE with new digital tools

This outline describes the advanced and fully automated purification development and optimization for an AAV vector with OPUS® RoboColumns® and Tecan Fluent liquid handling workstation.

 

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 High Performance

Process Development

Development of a purification process for a specific molecule requires evaluation of the resin as well as operation conditions for each chromatography step.

  • Resin screening
  • Condition screening

Using OPUS RoboColumn on a Tecan Fluent liquid handling workstation generated up to 96 pseudo-chromatograms (1536 data-points) in less than one day.

Sample Preparation / Process Analytical Technology (PAT)

 

The development and manufacture of a biotherapeutic requires significant analytical characterization of in-process intermediates. Non-purified samples derived from small scale multi-parallel bioreactors, such as Ambr™, requires sample preparation before analysis can be executed.

  • Drug discovery and clone selection 
  • Protein characterization
  • Media optimization
  • In-process fermentation monitoring

Using the OPUS RoboColumn on a Tecan Fluent liquid handling workstation generates sufficient purified product to conduct your analytical assays.

Manufacturing Centers of Excellence

Repligen develops and manufactures products for the biopharmaceutical industry under an ISO 9001 quality management system. We focus on the timely delivery of high quality, consistent and robust products, to ensure business continuity for our customers.

Repligen manufacturing sites are located in Massachusetts, California, and New Jersey in the United States and in Sweden, France, The Netherlands,  Germany and Estonia.

Locations

Customer First.

Support is part of the Repligen DNA. Our goal is to provide exceptional customer experience, and to support the efficient and successful adoption and implementation of all Repligen products and services.

  • Field Application Support
  • Customer Service
  • Field Service Engineers

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Specifications

 

Plate size

128.3 L x 86.0 W x 14.0 mm H

Plate material

Polyoxymethylene copolymer

Number of wells

96

Column volume

50 µL

100 µL

200 µL

450 µL

500 µL

600 µL

Bed height

2.5 mm

5.0 mm

10.0 mm

22.5 mm

25.0 mm

30.0 mm

Column inner diameter

5 mm

Column material

Polypropylene

Chemical stability

All commonly used aqueous buffers, pH 1 – 14, organic solvents*.  Avoid the use of halogenated organic solvents, hexane

Column storage solution

AIEC and CIEC Columns: 20 % ethanol + 150 mM sodium chloride
HIC, SEC, Affinity and MMC Columns: 20 % ethanol
CHT, CFT Columns (Bio-Rad): 20 % ethanol + 10 mM sodium phosphate, pH 6.8

Recommended storage temperature

AIEC, CIEC, HIC, SEC and MMC: +4°C to +30°C
Affinity Columns: +2°C to +8°C

Working temperature

+4°C to +30°C

Maximum working pressure

Up to 8.0 bar

Flow velocity

16 – 1000 cm/h**

Labelling

Laser-etched on every individual column body. Label contains:

  • Product number
  • Resin name
  • Column volume in µL

* Note: The chemical stability of the packed chromatography resin has also to be taken into consideration. For more information please refer to the manufacturer’s resin specification.
** TECAN software enables set up of the flow rate for each individual dispensing and chromatography step.