Merck & Co.’s automated compound distribution centre
publication date: May 23, 2006
n the mid-1990s, HTS labs were equipped with high-end automation for screening tens of thousands of compounds while compound management labs continued to manually pick samples and invest in standalone equipment. The bottleneck for screening shifted from testing samples to distributing compounds. In order to solve this problem, Merck & Co., Inc., developed an automated compound distribution center. The facility uses automation from The Automation Partnership (TAP), and a Merck-developed compound ordering system to provide solid and solution samples to Merck scientists worldwide.
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