BDA live

BioDocAnalyze with Digital Monochrome CCD Camera

BDA live is the system of choice for professional gel documentation.
A digital CCD camera with light - sensitive lens provides for brilliant gel images. The camera comes with 1. 4 megapixel resolution and a data depth of 12 bit making it ideal for precise band detection and accurate sample quantification. The self - explanatory image acquisition software allows the creation of high contrast images in a few steps.

Image acquisition software for control of

Exposure time
Brightness
Contrast
Gamma correction
Signal enhancement
Gel rotation
Live view, freeze view
Inverting
Saturation monitoring
Creation of image sections
Loading and saving files (16 bit tif, 8 bit tif, jpg, bmp, Biometra specific BD1)
Printing
BDA live is available as a complete system including darkhood BDA Box, transilluminator, thermal printer, installed up to date computer and converter plate or it can be composed of BDA live core set with camera and software plus further required components.

For users who are applying several different fluorescent dyes and want to use only one bandpass filter the "BDA live plus" systems are the right choice. These systems include a bandpass filter with wider transmission pass than the more specific filtering bandpass filters of the "BDA live" systems. Recommended transilluminators for the "BDA live Plus" set are UV tables with strong filter effect: the "UVstar Plus" tables.

The images can be directly transferred to the BDA analysis module.
The analysis software offers the convenience of an automatic or semi - automatic band detection with subsequent size and mass calibration on the basis of custom markers.

In case of the demand for an especial space and budget - saving system the "BDA live compact" set should be considered. The set consists of the core set with camera, bandpass filter, image acquisition and analysis software plus small darkhood "BDA Hood". This hood is directly placed on top of transilluminator. A small sliding door allows an easy aligning of the gel on the UV table.

Alternatively to a UV transilluminator a blue light table of the BLstar line with LED illumination can be used. Blue light illumination is applicable for fluorescent stains with an excitation range around 470 nm. With a BLstar table no bandpass filter in front of the camera is necessary. Therefore appropriate BDA sets and systems with addition "BL" are available.