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Automation As The Foundation For Confident, Efficient, & Reliable Cell Line Development Workflows

Cell line development (CLD) is a critical process in biotherapeutic production, yet it’s often hindered by inefficiency, scalability challenges, and complex regulatory requirements. At Advanced Instruments Solentim, we’ve redefined how CLD is approached through automation and advanced technology, empowering labs with reliable, repeatable results and seamless data integration.

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“Automation in Cell Line Development: Trends and Challenges”

Advancing Biotherapeutic Development Through Smart Automation.

Cell line development (CLD) is at the heart of biologics manufacturing, yet it remains a complex and resource-intensive process. As the demand for higher efficiency, scalability, and reproducibility grows, automation is reshaping the landscape—streamlining workflows, enhancing data integrity, and reducing development timelines.

In this recent feature from GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News), industry experts, including Adam Causer, Global Solentim Product Manager at Advanced Instruments, share insights into how automation is addressing CLD bottlenecks and paving the way for more consistent, high-quality biologics production.

“One of the biggest misconceptions in CLD automation is that it’s just about throughput…the real bottleneck is how scientists validate their decisions early on—before committing to a clone. The right automation tools don’t just help you move faster; they help you move smarter!”

– Adam Causer, Global Product Manager, Solentim Portfolio, Advanced Instruments

"One of the biggest misconceptions in CLD automation is that it’s just about throughput...the real bottleneck is how scientists validate their decisions early on—before committing to a clone. The right automation tools don’t just help you move faster; they help you move smarter!"

– Adam Causer, Global Product Manager, Solentim Portfolio, Advanced Instruments

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The Critical Bottlenecks Hindering CLD Success and Competitive Strategies to Overcome Them

The Bottlenecks Hindering CLD Success

In this first section of the podcast, Andrea highlights the major bottlenecks hindering CLD success, which slow down the process and compromise efficiency. These challenges include unpredictable DNA integration, where randomized gene insertion leads to variability in clone productivity, requiring exhaustive screening and significant resource investment. Transfection recovery delays further extend project timelines, as recovery after transfection can take weeks, introducing variability in outcomes. Additionally, clonality and data traceability are critical hurdles, with proving clonality for regulatory filings demanding intricate and time-intensive processes, as well as robust documentation and repeatable workflows. Lastly, resource-heavy clone selection is a significant obstacle, as high-throughput screening is crucial but often struggles with balancing speed, accuracy, and scalability.

Competitive Strategies to Overcome CLD Challenges – Andrea offers a roadmap for CLD scientists to transform these bottlenecks into opportunities:

  • Adopt Semi-Targeted Integration: Emerging technologies like transposons improve the precision of gene insertion, enhancing clone stability and reducing the screening burden.
  • Leverage Bulk Pools for Rapid Progress: For early-stage trials, bulk pools provide a flexible and time-efficient alternative to full clone screening, keeping projects moving without sacrificing quality.
  • Optimize Workflows with Automation: Advanced imaging and analysis tools ensure consistent data tracking and efficient selection of high-performing clones, freeing scientists to focus on innovation.

 

Actionable Takeaways for CLD Professionals - Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Redefine Cell Line Developement

Harnessing AI to Redefine CLD

The second section of the podcast focuses on shifts to harnessing artificial intelligence to redefine CLD, positioning it as a game-changer in driving innovation and efficiency. AI-powered imaging systems streamline clone selection by automatically identifying viable clones, significantly saving time and reducing the risk of human error. Additionally, predictive capabilities enabled by machine learning models analyze imaging and production data to forecast clone stability and performance, empowering scientists to make proactive decisions. By integrating AI, researchers can achieve reproducibility at scale, a critical component in the production of modern biotherapeutics.

Actionable Takeaways for CLD Professionals

    1. Streamline Your Data Management: Adopt tools that integrate imaging, tracking, and analysis into a unified workflow to ensure transparency and reproducibility.
    2. Focus on Scalability: Choose technologies designed to grow with your lab’s needs, ensuring efficient handling of increasing regulatory and production demands.
    3. Invest in Automation: Automation isn’t just about efficiency—it ensures repeatable, high-quality outcomes that can meet regulatory expectations confidently.

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Cell Metric had the best whole-well imaging capabilities and clonality reports and, when we demoed the instrument, we were convinced by the robustness of the system and very high image quality.

Tom Kelly

Janssen

The STUDIUS® software is very intuitive and user-friendly. The images are of very good quality with the different focus planes. Overall, using the VIPS PRO is very intuitive.

Alexis Rossignol

CleanCells

The VIPS™ system and software has helped our company to deliver a high-quality data-package that meets global regulatory standards...The ease of use and reliability of the VIPS freed up valuable time.

Andy Tsun

Discovery Biology, Biotheus Inc.

The VIPS system allowed us to shave off a few months from our development timeline and select highly stable single clones for manufacturing purposes.

Andy Tsun

Discovery Biology, Biotheus Inc.

The VIPS™ is unique, being the only single cell cloning system on the market that tracks a single cell’s arrival in the actual well with high resolution (z-stack) imaging and to support the subsequent daily whole well imaging provided by the Cell Metric.

Camile Evenou

Celonic AG

The Enhanced Clonality Reports easily generated by the VIPS/Cell Metric software allows us to track both cells and potential debris from first inception of the single cell in the well, to full-grown colonies enabling us to provide our customers with full traceability and audit trail of each cell line we produce for them with a single, well-crafted document.

Camile Evenou

Celonic AG

We use InstiGRO CHO to improve the efficiency of our cloning projects. The supplement has helped us achieve clonal outgrowth >80% and has reduced the time taken for clones to reach our desired confluence by 2 weeks! Taken together, the combined use of InstiGRO CHO and InstiSHAKE CHO can accelerate our CLD workflow up to 3 weeks with little compromise to productivity. 

CHO+PLUS

During expansion, we use InstiSHAKE CHO to support the adaptation of our clones to shaking culture. Thanks to InstiSHAKE CHO, we have significantly reduced the number of clones lost (by 90%) and have reduced the amount of time taken for cells to reach our desired viable cell density and viability by 7 days.  Taken together, the combined use of InstiGRO CHO and InstiSHAKE CHO can accelerate our CLD workflow up to 3 weeks with little compromise to productivity. 

CHO+PLUS

The Solentim Cell metric has become a crucial instrument in our cell line development process. The instrument has allowed us to create reliable and consistent data which in turn results in us being able to track our cell lines and compare them to each other with ease. Images produced by this instrument are always of high quality, and it is easy to train new member of the team on this platform as the system is very user-friendly! ...The instrument is certainly worth the money we paid as it has allowed us to determine monoclonality and track colony growth ...

Emily Agro

Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals

[With the VIPS PRO], we can trace back the data to the single cell, select from our top 48 cell lines, and report all the information – our proof of monoclonality is already in there, and that’s really nice.

Jolanda Gerritsen

Genmab

The Solentim ecosystem, [VIPS , Cell Metric, ICON], allowed Wheeler to rapidly develop and launch a standardized cell line development service that is integrated with a scalable drug substance process.

Mike Brem

Wheeler Bio

Very easy to use and produces good quality cell images, which are essential when monitoring outgrowth after limiting dilutions. The 10 plate cassette with automatic loading is very helpful for high throughput experiments, and the versatility of plate type makes the cell metric even more useful.

Ngarangi Mason

Horizon Discovery

The Cell Metric was designed with the end user in mind. Setup and use are easy and the ability to generate a clonality report at the end of a project is fantastic. I would highly recommend taking a very close look at the Cell Metric before adding any imaging system to a CLD workflow.

Ray Davis

RuffLife Consulting

Before this instrument, all our clonal analysis was done manually. We used to spend hours on the microscope looking for wells containing colonies possibly derived from single cells. Now, everything is automated, we since we can track the cell growth over time, we can be absolutely sure that a particular clones is derived from a single cell.

Rodrigo Santos

Horizon Discovery

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