Manufacturing and processing polymer arrays
First Claim
1. A method of assembling a sensor plate comprising:
- selecting a substrate comprising a plurality of sensors, each sensor surrounded by a border region that does not comprise any sensors, each sensor comprising an array of probes, wherein the substrate has an active side from which the sensor probes are dipped in a reservoir of a processing plate and an inactive side for attachment to a support plate;
aligning the substrate relative to a support plate comprising structural elements; and
fixedly attaching the substrate to the support plate to form a sensor plate, wherein the structural elements of the support plate contact and support the inactive side of the substrate within the border regions surrounding the sensors, and wherein the attached substrate protrudes from the support plate to facilitate dipping the active side of the substrate into the reservoir of the processing plate.
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Abstract
The invention provides sensor plates, particularly plates having a plurality of sensors, and related methods for assembling such plates. The sensors can be arrays of probes, such as microarrays, including high density oligonucleotide microarrays. The methods include the steps of selecting a substrate having a plurality of sensors, aligning the substrate to a support plate, and attaching the substrate to the support plate. Moduled sensor plates, and methods of assembling such plates, are also provided. The moduled sensor plates can include a plurality of sensor plates, such as sensor or microarray strip plates, with each strip plate having an attachment feature that is used to attach the strip plate to a frame. The sensor plates and moduled sensor plates can be inserted into processing plates, including hybridization plates, washing plates, staining plates, and detection plates. The assembled plates of the invention find use in high throughput analysis of samples, particularly biological samples having nucleic acid analytes.
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1. A method of assembling a sensor plate comprising:
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selecting a substrate comprising a plurality of sensors, each sensor surrounded by a border region that does not comprise any sensors, each sensor comprising an array of probes, wherein the substrate has an active side from which the sensor probes are dipped in a reservoir of a processing plate and an inactive side for attachment to a support plate; aligning the substrate relative to a support plate comprising structural elements; and fixedly attaching the substrate to the support plate to form a sensor plate, wherein the structural elements of the support plate contact and support the inactive side of the substrate within the border regions surrounding the sensors, and wherein the attached substrate protrudes from the support plate to facilitate dipping the active side of the substrate into the reservoir of the processing plate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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