NMR is not usually the first technology that one associates with proteomics or high-throughput workflows, but Palo Alto, Calif.-based Varian is trying to change that. The instrument company — which has been commercializing NMR instruments since the 1950s — released this week, at the Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference held in Monterey, Calif., an automated NMR system that can hook up with a standard 96-well sample format.