SmartCycler^® System
Cepheid’s Open RealTime PCR instrument

Cepheid’s SmartCycler^® System built smart for your needs.

The only random-access, modular, open real-time PCR instrument
on the market

SmartCycler^® II features:

• Fast thermal ramp rates (average time-to-results 20-40 minutes)
• Open platform
  • Reagents from Cepheid
  • Reagents form other manufacturers
  • Ideal for development of own assays
• Easy to use
• Quantitative analysis (qPCR) as well as melt curve analysis
• Test up to 16 different protocols simultaneously in one instrument: no need to batch samples!
• Flexible: start and stop each I-Core independently = maximum flexibility!
• Expandable: modular system, up to 96 independently programmable reaction sites
• Multiplex capability
• Robust, no moving parts
• Assay optimization made easy
• Use of various detection chemistries including Taqman^® and Molecular Beacon probes, Amplifluor^TM and Sciorpion^TM primers, and intercalating dyes

If you already use a SmartCycler^® in your laboratory, don’t forget to subscribe you for our coming Smart User Meetings!