QIAcube Custom Protocol

Engineered for laboratories that have already invested in a QIAcube instrument but need to expand beyond the standard onboard protocol library, this QIAGEN offering translates a researcher's specific purification or assay workflow into a fully programmable run script the workstation can execute unattended. Once loaded onto the system, the customized routine drives the same proven spin-column chemistry QIAGEN kits are known for, processing up to 12 samples per run with consistent vacuum and centrifugation profiles and eliminating manual pipetting steps that introduce variability. The result is reproducible DNA, RNA, or protein recoveries from input materials such as tissue lysates, cultured cells, swabs, and blood fractions, freeing bench scientists from repetitive preparatory work. The package is intended for in vitro research use only and slots directly into the QIAcube's load-and-go design, where reagent cartridges and elution vessels are placed in the rack once and the instrument handles binding, washing, and elution on its own. After the custom protocol is programmed and validated, routine runs can be queued by lab staff without specialized training, supporting higher throughput in clinical research, veterinary diagnostics, food testing, biopharmaceutical QC, and academic core facilities where sample intake fluctuates week to week. By adapting the platform to specialized chemistries or niche sample types that an off-the-shelf protocol does not yet cover, the offering protects prior capital investment while opening new downstream applications for quantitative PCR, sequencing library prep, genotyping, and other enzymatic reactions that depend on clean template input.