Best Biotek R&D Division provides state-of-the-art facilities and a stimulating environment for R&D work in several key areas of biotechnology. Its high-caliber team of young and committed scientists provides contract research services in plant gene transformation (bacterial-mediated), RAPD analysis, phytochemistry, hairy root culture, immunoassay kit development and a whole host of other specialized areas.

Best Biotek is equipped with the state of the art laboratory  and offers contract R & D services including

Enzyme assays.

Protein analysis.

Molecular characterizations & analysis.

 Automated Microbial Identification Services- MIDI services using the latest Agilent GC 6890 with Sherlock software.

• Rapid, Accurate and Comprehensive solution for the identification of over 1500 microbial species, including bacteria, mycobacterium, yeast and fungi
• Unique system with no requirement of any offline tests, Gram stains or biochemical cards

Proven Accuracy

• Established technology with 15 years of clinical and environmental use
• CDC method for aerobic bacteria ID(NIOSH method # 0801)
• FDA 510(k) cleared for Anthrax ID([510(k)#k052485])
• Identifies all six major bioterrorism bacteria
• Has over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles to its credit

Technology

• The Sherlock Microbial Identification System identifies microbes based on the Gas Chromatographic analyssi of extracted fatty acid methly esters(FAME)
• Microbial fatty acid methyl esters are unique fingerprints for each species, enabling MIDI to create large microbial libraries
• Sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms are used to match the unknown microbial FAME fingerprints to the Sherlock libraries

Key Features

• Rapid
• Cost Effective

• Automated
• Comprehensive
• Data analysis tools including clustering, dendrogram, data export and strain tracking
• Custom libraries can be created
• Enables FDA 21CFR Part 11 Electronic Records and Signatures compliance
• Validation package

Markets Using Sherlock

• Clinical Diagnosis
• Pharmaceutical QA/QC
• Veterianary Science
• Food Microbiology
• Plant pathology
  Soil Sample analysis
• Water quality analysis
• Biomediation
• Epidemology
• Entomology
• Bioterrorism

 MICRO ARRAYS SERVICES:
– Micro array spotting and hybridization
– Array Design
– Pharmacogenomics
– Data Analysis Apps