{"id":222,"date":"2025-02-13T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:54:56","slug":"large-particle-sorter-copas-vision-500-union-biometrica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/equipment\/large-particle-sorter-copas-vision-500-union-biometrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Large particle sorter &#8211; COPAS Vision 500, Union Biometrica\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-3\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-2\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<p>An innovative particle sorter capable of isolating large organisms and at the same time generating a brightfield image for each particle analysed. The instrument suits extremely well studies of developmental biology and environmental samples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among other applications, the COPAS Vision allows particle sorting for molecular analyses (i.e. bulk\/sc-DNA\/RNA-seq, proteomics, metabarcoding), imaging, cryofixation for EM and cultivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below some main features of the instrument:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Large flow cell (500 \u00b5m)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Very low system pressure (~ 0.2 &#8211; 2 psi)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Air-based sorting<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Brightfield images&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lasers<\/strong>: violet (405 nm), blue (488 nm) and yellow-green (561 nm).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emission filters:<\/strong> 465 nm, 515 nm, 575 nm, 680 nm<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/copas-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/copas-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/copas-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/copas-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/copas.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Large Particle Sorter, COPAS, Union Biometrica. Credit: Massimo Del Prete\/EMBL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":159,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-title-left-aligned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/groups\/mobile-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}