We’re shipping off the demo NanoDrop today, but have a spec here to demo – the BioTek Epoch.  The BioTek Epoch is a new competitor to the NanoDrop built by a company that’s been in the plate reader business for decades.  This machine is capable of doing 16 NanoDrop style 1-2ul samples simultaneously, or even reading an entire 96 or 384 well plate of larger samples (>25 µl).  With some help from Danna Eickbush, we did a quick test this morning and found BioTek Epoch capable of accurately detecting and characterizing smaller concentrations of DNA than the NanoDrop (the NanoDrop crapped out around 10 ngµl, whereas the Epoch was still giving us reasonable results down to 3 ng/µl).  We’ll have it for another week, so please stop by if you’d like to give it a spin.