Roche’s Molecular Work Area: Redefining centralized lab testing
Roche’s Molecular Work Area is built around the ground-breaking cobas® 5800/6800/8800 systems, along with their broad and flexible molecular cobas® assay menu, and suite of navify® digital laboratory solutions. Additional standalone solutions for automation and connectivity can be added over time, allowing you to move and grow at your own pace. Together, these components form a future-ready solution for any size laboratory.
The Molecular Work Area is envisioned to consolidate and automate greater than 90%* of a molecular laboratory’s non-urgent, routine testing. Each solution plays a part in delivering scalable capacity without increased effort. Optimizing centralized testing with Roche’s cobas 5800/6800/8800 systems can ensure the right test to the right patient at the right time to eliminate potentially avoidable complications.
To help you fully realize your laboratory transformation, Roche Healthcare Consultants provide expert support at every stage of the journey. Start your journey towards a simple, efficient, and consolidated future.
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Benefits of molecular centralized lab testing solutions from Roche
Proven performance with trusted and reproducible results
The Molecular Work Area is in operation across five continents, delivering consolidated testing, increased efficiency, and up to 10 million trusted, reproducible results every month.
Studies** have confirmed that for all Roche molecular assays and platforms, 'a result is a result'.1‑4 Enjoy a seamless and fast transition to cobas® 5800/6800/8800 systems and bring unrivaled efficiency to your lab and your customers.
Absolute automation increases efficiency and productivity
Improve operations with cobas® 5800/6800/8800 systems and achieve fast time to results with the highest throughput and the longest walkaway time—up to eight hours with cobas® 6800 system and up to 4 hours on cobas® 5800 and 8800 systems.*** Automation gives you the freedom of only two manual interactions: load samples, consumables, and reagents, then empty waste and release results.
- Ready-to-use reagents require no thawing, mixing, or pouring
- Full sample traceability via radio-frequency identification (RFID) and barcodes
- Intuitive interactions and low hands-on time minimize human error
Our portfolio of standalone and connected automation solutions allows lab technicians to work on higher-level challenges and opportunities within the laboratory. From cross-contamination compliant pre-analytical systems to simple and secure archiving with post-analytical units, the Molecular Work Area brings new levels of efficiency to labs of all sizes and disciplines.
Connecting molecular systems with pre- and post-analytical solutions from a single provider like Roche enables a simplified, streamlined workflow. This dramatically eliminates the direct interaction of the operator with the sample, allowing laboratory staff the flexibility and freedom to focus on higher-level challenges and opportunities instead of repetitive manual tasks.
Unmatched flexibility helps meet your changing demands
The Molecular Work Area is designed to meet your specific laboratory needs, today and in the future. The broad assay menu of the cobas® 5800/6800/8800 systems makes consolidating testing easier than ever before.
- Perform up to six tests in the same run with no pre-sorting required
- Process up to three different tests from a single patient sample
- Handle urgent samples quickly and easily with a dedicated priority lane
Expand the broad testing menu with the cobas® omni Utility Channel. Adding other assays to this open channel brings the overall workflow efficiencies of IVD tests to other test types, further elevating the value your lab delivers.
Experience complete connectivity—only available from Roche
Physically connect pre-analytical instruments using the cobas® connection module (CCM) to bring unrivaled efficiency into your daily work.
Our data connectivity and insight solutions from navify® provide you with complete connectivity to your laboratory systems. navify Lab Operations integrates the entire sample flow on a single solution enabling intelligent and adaptive workflows that allow for adjustments to the changing needs of your lab. navify Analytics automates the collection and visualization of testing data to provide actionable insights into volume optimization, error reduction and positivity rates, which means you can observe testing trends and optimize lab processes accordingly.
Automated and integrated PCR-based nucleic acid testing systems comparison overview
cobas® 5800 System
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cobas® 6800 System
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cobas® 8800 System
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| Maximum throughput† | |||
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Up to 144 results in 8 hours. Up to 528 in 24 hours
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Up to 384 in 8 hours. Up to 1,344 in 24 hours
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Up to 960 in 8 hours. Up to 3,072 in 24 hours
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| Walkaway time‡ | |||
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Up to 4 hours
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Up to 8 hours
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Up to 4 hours
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| Maximum number of tests per run | |||
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24 tests including controls
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96 tests including controls
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96 tests including controls
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| Assay reagent cassettes | |||
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Up to 15
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Up to 12
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Up to 12
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†May vary based on workflow demands
‡Walkaway time is dependent on the number of tests performed and the number of runs initiated
We have more flexibility to perform different tests… at the same time, within only 3 hours.
The conversion to the cobas® 8800 Systems could not have come at a better time with our difficulty in maintaining our staffing levels... we’re not sure how we managed before.
The cobas® 6800/8800 System is completely autonomous, easy to operate, fast, safe and sensitive.
* May vary based on assay availability in your country.
** Studies were implemented under real-world conditions outside of Roche laboratories, at 8 collaborative sites worldwide, including Europe, Africa and Australia, confirming high precision, accuracy and traceability of results according to WHO standards for all Roche platforms and assays: High Pure System, COBAS® TaqMan® 48 Analyzer, COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan® Instrument System, cobas® 4800/5800/6800/8800 systems.
*** May vary based on workflow demands.
References
- Vermehren J, Stelzl E, Maasoumy B, et al. Multicenter Comparison Study of both Analytical and Clinical Performance across Four Roche Hepatitis C Virus RNA Assays Utilizing Different Platforms. J Clin Microbiol. 2017;55(4):1131-1139.
- Maasoumy B, Bremer B, Lehmann P, et al. Commutability and concordance of four hepatitis B virus DNA assays in an international multicenter study. Therap Adv Gastroenterol. 2017;10(8):609-618.
- Adams P, Vancutsem E, Nicolaizeau C, et al. Multicenter evaluation of the cobas® HIV-1 quantitative nucleic acid test for use on the cobas® 4800 system for the quantification of HIV-1 plasma viral load. J Clin Virol. 2019;114;43-49.
- Data on file from Roche.