1. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com The SuperCycler A Software Overview

2. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Access all systems functions from here by pressing the icons with the stylus provided. Desktop 'Home' 1 Configuration takes the user to the configuration page allowing of machine options. PCR Run is used to load or create an new PCR thermal profile and initiate its execution. Manual Control allows immediate manual setting of block temperature. Information displays a general information screen such as serial number, software and hardware version numbers. An on-screen user manual is accessible from under this page menu

3. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com PCR Run Load an existing experiment from either the internal drive or an external USB drive, or create a new thermal profile using either the Wizard or the Manual Profile Builder. 2

4. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Wizard Mode The Wizard utility enables the user to configure easy to moderate complex profiles in just moments. To adjust any of the parameters click on the corresponding time or temperature boxes. The Wizard screen displays each of the steps which occur in a typical range of profiles. At a minimum there are 3 steps, Preheat and then Denaturation and Anneal which are cycled. 3

5. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Run Confirmation Displays the profile sequence in text form for user to review. Shows detail of what occurs on run completion. Select OK to proceed or Cancel further edit profile. System also allows profile to be run in virtual mode. 4

6. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com This screen contains 8 icon buttons with the following functionality: Manual Profile Editor 5.Save 6.Load 7.Clear Profile 8.Settings 1.Help 2.Start Run 3.Add Event 4.Add Notes The manual profile editor screen displays the current experiment profile in a 'tree list' format. 5

7. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Creating New Events Hold – allows the operator to set the hold time and temperature. Ramp – allows the block temperature to be ramped either up or down between two set temperatures over a preset length of time. Pause – will hold the temperature at the last set point and pause the run with an audible warning. Cycling x Step – will proceed to generate a multi step cycling event. 6

8. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Setting New Event Parameters Set the event or step parameters by touching the time and temperature buttons which facilitates the numeric input screen Selecting Gradient, Touchdown or Long Range checkboxes displays more settings. 7

9. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Advanced Event Parameters This screen shows all gradient, touchdown and long range functions enabled. These may be used independently or all together. Touch the predicted temps link to display the predicted well temperatures when gradient function is enabled. 8

10. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com When step parameters are entered the user is prompted for number of cycles if it is a cycling step. Numeric Input Touch Screen After this display returns to the profile screen with the new event displayed. 9

11. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Run Screen Once the run commences the software will automatically proceed to the Run Screen. The thermal profile may not be edited once the run has commenced, however Pause, Start and Stop functions may be used. The Run Screen also displays status, elapsed and estimated run time, current user logged in and their profile picture. 10

12. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Post Run Report On run completion the post run report screen will show and if enabled an audible alarm will sound. The alarm may be muted by pressing the mute alarm button. The post run report can be saved as a text file to a USB memory stick 11

13. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com File Manager: manages PCR run files and copying of file from the device to USB memory stick. Machine Settings: allows changes to be made to machine settings. Time & Date: used to set the Time for the instruments internal clock. Configuration The configuration page provides access to the following features. Thermal Calibration feature is used to adjust the machine calibration. User Accounts: for user account control. Software Updates: used to update SuperCycler operating Software. Touch Panel Calibration: allows calibration of the touch-screen interface using the calibration wizard. 12

14. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com The File Manager area allows the transfer of PCR run files between the default or individual user directories and a USB memory drive. File Manager 13

15. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com The User Accounts section allows selection of an existing user and creation or deletion of a user profile. Users Accounts When a user is selected thermal profiles will be loaded or saved to a directory specific to that user. 14

16. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com The Machine Settings section facilitates changes to block thermal options and top heater options Machine Settings 15

17. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com The Oligo Calculator is useful for calculating the theoretical melt temperature and other information pertaining to the oligo design. Simply enter the sequence and the calculator will do the rest. Extras Several popular Games are also provided for your enjoyment! 16

18. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Free software upgrades for the life time of the product are available for all customers via our website. Upgrade Software The upgrade process is very straight forward and takes only a few minutes. 17

19. 3/17 Dividend Street, Mansfield, 4122, Queensland, Australia phone: +61 7 3103 8560 email: info@kyratec.com web: www.kyratec.com Thanks for watching...please contact us for further information