Covaris - Complex Samples to Quality Analytes
Covaris, a PerkinElmer Co., develops, manufactures, and markets instruments, consumables, and reagents used in pre-analytical sample preparation for genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic analysis to help accelerate the pace of research and life science innovations. Using proprietary technologies such as, focused acoustic energy, Covaris’ robust, reliable workflows achieve highly accurate and reproducible results with the goal of empowering its users to achieve new discoveries, develop new assays and improve bioanalytical results. Some of the key applications include faster, accurate, reproducible, and automated DNA fragmentation, cell lysis, accelerated sample preparation assays, bead resuspension, and compound formulation.
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Our Sample Prep Solutions
Sample Preparation Utilizing Adaptive Focused Acoustics® (AFA®) Technology
DNA/RNA Shearing & Library Prep for NGS
Improve NGS performance
Protein Analysis
Improve protein analysis
Chromatin Fragmentation and Shearing
Improve epigenetic characterization
FFPE Paraffin Removal and Extraction of TNA
Improve FFPE freeing and exposing more tissue
Perspective & Insights
2012
AFA® patent granted
80+
issued patents
40,000+
citations in peer-reviewed publications
6,500+
instruments sold
150+
employees worldwide
20+
years of service
Why Covaris and What You Can Expect
We offer comprehensive, integrated sample preparation workflows for genomics, proteomics, and beyond.
- ‣ Robust, efficient and reproducible DNA and RNA sample prep workflows with accurate and reliable results that improve NGS performance
- ‣ AFA technology for cell lysis, tissue disruption, and molecular processing for a wide variety of samples, including complex biological matrices
- ‣ HQ and yield of total nucleic acid from FFPE samples using scalable workflow solutions for active deparaffinization, extraction, isolation, & purification
- ‣ Comprehensive, one-plate extraction of proteins from any biological matrix sample matrix, followed by efficient purification & accelerated digestion
- ‣ Robust, reproducible, fast non-contact chromatin shearing for epigenomic assays
Amplify Your Results with truCOVER
- ✔ Generate uniform, unbiased libraries that enhance workflow efficiency and maximize flow cell utilization
- ✔ Process low-input samples of 0.1–50 ng across a wide range of sample types, including FFPE, blood, saliva, cell culture, and microbial DNA
- ✔ Reduce your cost/sample and time to high quality results with efficient workflows
High-Quality Proteins from FFPE Samples
- ✔ Efficient, fast, and robust extraction of proteins from any biological matrix
- ✔ High protein coverage and peptide depth regardless of the starting sample amount
- ✔ Accelerated digestion without any additional missed cleavages ensuring increased peptide depth & concentration
