摘要:
Disclosed are devices (1) and methods for disposing pipette syringes or dispenser syringes (2) in a system (3) used for manipulating liquid samples (4). One inventive device (1) comprises: a robot (5) for orienting pipette syringes or dispenser syringes (2) relative to sample receptacles (6) located in or on the system (3) in an X direction and in a Y direction that extends substantially at a right angle thereto; pipette syringes or dispenser syringes (2) which extend essentially in a vertical direction and can be raised and lowered in a Z direction running substantially perpendicular to the X and Y directions; drive units for moving the robot (5); and processors for controlling the movements and actions of the robot (5) and the pipette syringes and dispenser syringes (2). The inventive device (1) is characterized in that the same comprises at least two blocks (8, 9) which are arranged on a robot (5) arm (7) and on which at least two pipette syringes or dispenser syringes (2) are placed at an axial distance (10) from each other. The axial distance (10) essentially corresponds to the grid space of wells (19) of a microplate (18). At least one of said blocks (8, 9) is configured so as to be individually movable in the X direction and Y direction in order to alternately orient the pipette syringes or dispenser syringes (2) of the two blocks (8, 9) in a staggered manner along a common line (12). The disclosed method makes it possible to re-pipette liquid sample (4) in a time-saving fashion between several sample receptacles, e.g. between small sample tubes and microplates (18) encompassing 24, 96, 384, or 1536 wells.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for dispensing a small volume of a selected liquid, such as a biological sample or reagent, onto a substrate. The device includes a tube adapted to contain the liquid. An elongate fiber is disposed within the tube for axial movement therein between raised and lowered positions. Upon shifting or oscillating the fiber between its raised and lowered positions, a liquid spot can be formed at a selected position on the substrate. The device is readily adaptable for the production of micro-arrays having a great number of individual spots.
摘要:
A printing method and apparatus is disclosed wherein the printhead (10) has a linear array (14) of nozzles (12N1, 126) oriented in an axis, and drops of a liquid are printed at a particular location from first and second nozzles of the printhead at a first location. In an embodiment, the nozzles are arranged in groups, each group of nozzles being used to superpose spots of a particular liquid at a different location. A further method is described wherein the printhead is triggered by transferring printing triggers from a processing module to a printhead at print intervals representative of a plurality of fixed units of spatial displacement of the printhead. The present invention is particularly advantageous for the cycling of print nozzles, superposition of spots in linear arrays and fine control of spot positioning. The invention has particular application in the field of printing DNA microarrays.
摘要:
The invention provides fast and highly accurate mass spectrometer based processes for detecting a particular nucleic acid sequence in a biological sample. Depending on the sequence to be detected, the processes can be used, for example, to diagnose a genetic disease or chromosomal abnormality; a predisposition to a disease or condition, infection by a pathogenic organism, or for determining identity or heredity.
摘要:
The present invention has an objective of obtaining more accurate data of microarray experiments by correcting an inter-pin spotting amount error caused upon microarray production using a plurality of pins. Upon microarray production, samples are immobilized on a microarray support using all pins as controls for correcting the inter-pin spotting amount errors. After the microarray experiments, luminescent intensities of the samples used as control spots for correcting the inter-pin spotting amount errors are measured and used to obtain correction parameters for the inter-pin spotting amount errors of respective pins. These parameters are used to correct luminescent intensities of other samples.
摘要:
The invention provides fast and highly accurate mass spectrometer based processes for detecting a particular nucleic acid sequence in a biological sample. Depending on the sequence to be detected, the processes can be used, for example, to diagnose a genetic disease or chromosomal abnormality; a predisposition to a disease or condition, infection by a pathogenic organism, or for determining identity or heredity.
摘要:
The invention describes a new method to sequence DNA. The improvements over the existing DNA sequencing technologies are high speed, high throughput, no electrophoresis and gel reading artifacts due to the complete absence of an electrophoretic step, and no costly reagents involving various substitutions with stable isotopes. The invention utilizes the Sanger sequencing strategy and assembles the sequence information by analysis of the nested fragments obtained by base-specific chain termination via their different molecular masses using mass spectrometry, as for example, MALDI or ES mass spectrometry. A further increase in throughput can be obtained by introducing mass-modifications in the oligonucleotide primer, chain-terminating nucleoside triphosphates and/or in the chain-elongating nucleoside triphosphates, as well as using integrated tag sequences which allow multiplexing by hybridization of tag specific probes with mass-differentiated molecular weights.