Akonni’s TruTip Automated Workstation includes: an external magnet used for sample homogenization and cell lysis, a pipetting manifold, and an air pump (not shown). The consumables consist of lysis tubes that include a stir disk in a tube of glass beads, a reagent plate containing all necessary liquid reagents for extraction, and TruTips, which include a porous glass binding matrix inside of a standard pipette tip.