The Vendor is required to provide to purchase visium cytassist system including accessory & training kit, and cytassist assurance plan from 10x genomics.
- The visium cytassist is a compact instrument designed to simplify the visium workflow by facilitating the transfer of transcriptomic probes from standard glass slides to visium slides, enabling whole transcriptomic spatial profiling insights across user’s entire tissue section, and expanded compatibility with formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) and/or FF samples.
- The faculty’s understanding that only visium cytassist system can meet their requirements and 10x genomics is the only vendor who can manufacture the system.
• The system must enable the transfer of transcriptomic probes from standard glass slides to Visium slides, enabling spatial profiling insights to be gained from even more samples.
• The system must be compatible with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) – or immunofluorescence (IF)-stained tissue sections, enabling the use of pre-sectioned tissues to be used for the Visium workflow.
• The system must enable users to screen tissue sections using standard histological techniques to identify biologically significant regions and precisely align those sections within the Visium slide Capture Area using Cytassist, thereby maximizing experimental efficiency.
• The system must be able to maximize insights from Visium experiments by prescreening tissue sections with standard histological techniques to select biologically significant sections.
• The system must be able to precisely capture up to two FFPE or frozen tissue sections per run in less than one hour using the system.
• System compatibility:
1. Visium 2-reaction slides with 6.5 x 6.5 mm or 11 x 11 mm Capture Areas
2. Visium Spatial Gene Expression
• Specifications:
1. Weight: 18.3 lbs.
2. Dimensions (max): 8” x 12” x 13.1” (W x D x H)
3. Samples per run: 2 input tissue sections
4. Run time range: 30–90 minutes
• A 12-month warranty is included.