SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LARGE NUMBER OF BIOLOGICAL MICROARRAYS

• US 20100069265A1
• Filed: 06/10/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Affymetrix, Inc. (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Affymetrix, Inc. (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Inventors: Shirazi, Mohsen
• Granted Patent: US 8,796,186 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 506/39
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 9/52 Supports specially adapted for flat sample carriers, e.g. for plates, slides, chips
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 9/523 for multisample carriers, e.g. used for microtitration plates
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 1/312 for samples mounted on planar substrates
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00158 Elements containing microarrays, i.e. "biochip"
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/00356 Holding samples at elevated temperature (incubation)
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/0425 Stacks, magazines or elevators for plates
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/0498 Drawers used as storage or dispensing means for vessels or cuvettes
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2035/1048 using the transfer device for another function
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/0099 comprising robots or similar manipulators robots per se B25J
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/028 having reaction cells in the form of microtitration plates

Abstract

A system and method for processing biological sensors. The system includes a support component configured to support a fluidic component. The fluidic component includes at least a first container and a second container. The first container is capable of holding a first volume of a first fluid, and the second container is capable of holding a second volume of a second fluid. Additionally, the system includes a hybridization component configured to perform a hybridization process on a first sensor and a second sensor. Moreover, the system includes a transport component configured to move the first sensor, directly or indirectly, from the hybridization component into the first container and in contact with the first volume of the first fluid.

Claims

1. A system for processing biological sensors, the system comprising:

a support component configured to support a fluidic component, the fluidic component including at least a first container and a second container, the first container capable of holding a first volume of a first fluid, the second container capable of holding a second volume of a second fluid;

a hybridization component configured to perform a hybridization process on a first sensor and a second sensor;

a transport component configured to;

move the first sensor, directly or indirectly, from the hybridization component into the first container and in contact with the first volume of the first fluid;

move the second sensor, directly or indirectly, from the hybridization component into the second container and in contact with the second volume of the second fluid;

wherein the transport component is further configured to move the first sensor and the second sensor substantially simultaneously.

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