CHEMICAL COMPUTER
    31.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220036252A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17277514

    申请日:2019-09-20

    发明人: Leroy CRONIN

    IPC分类号: G06N99/00 G16C20/10

    摘要: The invention provides a chemical computer having a matrix, an input device and an analytical device. The matrix is a plurality of interconnected reaction spaces holding a reaction mixture; the input device is provided to independently address each of a plurality of reaction spaces within the matrix; and the analytical device has a sensor to analyse a reaction characteristic of a reaction mixture in one or more reaction spaces. Also provides are methods for using the chemical computer, and the use of the chemical computer as a logic gate.

    DIGITAL REACTIONWARE
    34.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200335181A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US16960707

    申请日:2019-01-09

    发明人: Leroy CRONIN

    摘要: The invention provides a method for digitising a method of synthesis. The method includes the steps of identifying a method of synthesis for a target product; (ii) establishing a process sequence for that method, which process sequence is a collection of chemical and/or physical steps within the method of synthesis; and subsequently (iii) translating the process sequence to a digital model of the method of synthesis, which digital model comprises a digital description of the chemical and/or physical steps within the method of synthesis.

    Plasmonic device, method of manufacturing a plasmonic device and method of analysis using a plasmonic device

    公开(公告)号:US10768175B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US15630524

    申请日:2017-06-22

    摘要: A plasmonic device is disclosed, the plasmonic device having a base substrate and an electrically conductive film formed on the base substrate. The base substrate has a reference upper surface and an arrangement of chiral nanostructures formed in relief from the reference upper surface. Each chiral nanostructure has a nanostructure upper surface which is disposed at a distance of at least 30 nm from the reference upper surface in a thickness direction. The electrically conductive film is formed on the nanostructure upper surface of each chiral nanostructure and on at least part of the reference upper surface of the base substrate. Also disclosed is a method of analysis of a biological material using the plasmonic device, by depositing the biological material onto the plasmonic device and irradiating the plasmonic device and the biological material with electromagnetic radiation. The arrangement of chiral nanostructures and electrically conductive film generates a superchiral electromagnetic field, the effect of the presence of the biological material on the superchiral electromagnetic field then being detected.

    Measurement of Acceleration
    38.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170276697A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-28

    申请号:US15506675

    申请日:2015-08-26

    摘要: An acceleration measuring device is disclosed, for use as a gravimeter or gradiometer for example. The device has a support and a proof mass, connected to each other by at flexures allowing displacement of the proof mass relative to the support. The support defines a space for displacement of the proof mass. The device is configured so that the modulus of the gradient of the force-displacement curve of the proof mass decreases with increasing displacement, for at least part of the force-displacement curve. This is the so-called anti-spring effect. The resonant frequency of oscillation of the proof mass is determined at least in part by the orientation of the device relative to the direction of the force due to gravity. The proof mass is capable of oscillating with a resonant frequency of 10 Hz or less. The proof mass has a mass of less than 1 gram.

    METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING T CELL DIVERSITY

    公开(公告)号:US20170198347A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-13

    申请号:US15405181

    申请日:2017-01-12

    IPC分类号: C12Q1/68 G06F19/18 G06F19/20

    摘要: This invention relates to methods and systems for measuring T cell diversity. It is particularly related to methods of identifying T cell receptor (TCR) pairs and their relative frequencies and finds particular use in antigen-specific T cell populations and other T cell populations with limited polyclonality. An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides a method estimating the clonal composition of a T cell population, the method including the steps of: obtaining a plurality of samples from said population, each sample containing a plurality of T cells; sequencing the CDR3α and CDR3β regions of each of those samples; calculating, for every α and β chain found in common in at least one of the samples, an association score which reflects the likelihood of pairing between each of those chains; repeatedly, for a randomly selected subset of said samples, determining, from the calculated association scores, the most likely αβ pairs in each of said selected samples and selecting those pairs as candidate αβ pairs; comparing the number of instances that each of said candidate αβ pairs appears in all of said repeats to a threshold and selecting those pairs whose instances exceed said threshold as true αβ pairs; estimating, from the frequency of co-existence of α and β chains in each of said samples and the sample size of said sample, the frequency of each of said true αβ pairs; and discriminating, amongst said αβ pairs, between possible dual T cell receptors or two clones which share a common β chain.