Scientific Industries' Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI) Introduces DOTS, The New Sensor Platform to Digitally Simplify Bioprocessing

BOHEMIA, NY and PITTSBURGH, PA / ACCESSWIRE / August 8, 2022 / Scientific Industries, Inc. (OTCQB:SCND), a life science tool provider, and a developer of digitally simplified products, announced today its subsidiary Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI) announces the launch of DOTS, a visionary sensor platform for bioprocessing at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology in San Francisco from August 7-10 at the Hyatt Regency. DOTS combines a network of sensors and actuators with powerful software to monitor Critical Process Parameters (CPPs) on a continuous basis.

In bioprocessing, researchers and engineers are interested in a broad variety of parameters (e.g. pH or biomass) for various vessel types (e.g. shake flasks, bags and custom bioreactor systems). For many of the needed parameters, applications and vessel types, no suitable sensors are available. If they are available, researchers often need to source them from different suppliers, ending up with application- and vessel-specific sensors and software products. This creates a complex landscape of sensors, suppliers, software products, user interfaces, calibration logics and other factors.

"The monitoring of bioprocesses and the respective sensor handling and control experience is often unnecessarily complex," said Daniel Grünes, President and CEO of Scientific Bioprocessing (SBI). "Our vision is that a scientist names a point of interest and parameter in bioprocessing and that our DOTS platform then provides a suitable sensor and software for that application in the simplest way possible. In other words: One sensor platform to simplify your bioprocessing."

To support the existing variety of applications from microbial fermentation to cell and gene therapy, a broad portfolio of sensors will be available on the DOTS platform, starting with sensors for biomass, pH and DO for various vessel types. These sensors are then combined with the innovative DOTS Software. The DOTS Software provides a modern and intuitive user interface, contains pre-defined application templates to allow experiment set-up with the least clicks possible and provides innovative features like biomass-based feeding in shake flasks. The DOTS Software is not a cloud solution, so users keep full control over their data and can locally deploy it.