High throughput screening employing combination of dispensing well plate device and array tape
First Claim
Patent Images
1. Method comprising:
- providing a dispenser containing a plurality of different first reagents arranged in first and second columns and first and second rows defining a first array;
providing first and second targets including wells arranged in first and second columns and first and second rows defining a second array and including second reagents, with the first and second columns and the first and second rows of the first array corresponding to the first and second columns and the first and second rows of the second array;
aligning the dispenser with the first array of the first reagents with the wells of the first target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first reagents into the wells of the first target;
moving the first and second targets relative to the dispenser in a direction parallel to the first and second columns of the first and second targets; and
aligning the dispenser with the first column of the first array of first reagents with the second column of the wells of the second target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first column of first reagents into the wells of the second column of the second target.
2 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
High throughput screening is performed by directing an array tape (60) provided with a plurality of wells arranged in rows and columns into a dispensing well plate device (25) having various row and column actuators (40, 50). With the wells containing samples to be tested, activating select ones of row and column actuators (40, 50) of the dispensing well plate device (25), as well causing relative shifting between the actuators (40, 50) and the array tape (60), enables fluid to be dispensed from one or more nozzles of the dispensing well plate device (25) into predetermined ones of the plurality of wells in a wide range of patterns.
-
Citations
13 Claims
-
1. Method comprising:
-
providing a dispenser containing a plurality of different first reagents arranged in first and second columns and first and second rows defining a first array; providing first and second targets including wells arranged in first and second columns and first and second rows defining a second array and including second reagents, with the first and second columns and the first and second rows of the first array corresponding to the first and second columns and the first and second rows of the second array; aligning the dispenser with the first array of the first reagents with the wells of the first target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first reagents into the wells of the first target; moving the first and second targets relative to the dispenser in a direction parallel to the first and second columns of the first and second targets; and aligning the dispenser with the first column of the first array of first reagents with the second column of the wells of the second target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first column of first reagents into the wells of the second column of the second target. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
-
-
9. Method comprising:
-
providing a dispenser with a plurality of different first reagents arranged with a first spacing between the different first reagents and in a column; providing a dispenser with a plurality of different second reagents arranged with a second spacing between the different second reagents and in a row; providing first and second targets each including wells in an array having first and second columns and first and second rows, with the wells in the first and second columns being spaced the first spacing of the first reagents and the wells in the first and second rows being spaced corresponding to the second spacing of the second reagents; aligning the dispenser with the column of the plurality of different first reagents with the first column in the first target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first reagents into the first column in the first target; aligning the dispenser with the column of the plurality of different first reagents with the second column in the second target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first reagents into the second column in the second target; aligning the dispenser with the row of the plurality of different second reagents with the first row in the first target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the second reagents into the first row in the first target; and aligning the dispenser with the row of the plurality of different second reagents with the second row in the second target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the second reagents into the second row in the second target. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
-
Specification