Abstract:
The present invention pertains to a method suitable for analysing the temperature control of a device which is supposed to establish a defined temperature in a micro-environment, said method comprising a first Optical Temperature Verification step which comprises a) providing one or more thermochromatic liquid crystals in a micro-environment, wherein each thermochromatic liquid crystal has a specific event temperature; b) providing one or more temperature dependent luminophores in a micro-environment; c) varying the temperature in the micro-environments and irradiating the micro-environments with light; d) recording the luminescence of the one or more temperature dependent luminophores when the event temperature of the one or more thermochromatic liquid crystals is reached in the micro-environment; and wherein said method preferably comprises a second Optical Temperature Verification step, which comprises the following: a) providing one or more temperature dependent luminophores that were used in the First Optical Temperature Verification in a micro-environment; b) varying the temperature of the micro-environments and irradiating the micro-environments with light; c) monitoring the luminescence emitted. The respective method is very suitable to analyse the temperature control of a thermal cycler, in particular during a calibration.
Abstract:
A sequencing instrument optical system having a combined light source with multiple collinear excitation beams having different respective excitation wavelengths, a sequencing surface having DNA templates and nucleobase labels configured to emit a respective emission light at a different respective emission wavelength upon excitation by one or more of the excitation beams, a color camera configured to detect the emission light of each of the nucleobase labels, a first optical pathway configured to direct the collinear excitation beams from the combined light source to the sequencing surface, and a second optical pathway configured to direct the emission light from the sequencing surface to the color camera.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a microtitre plate with wells having transparent bottoms, wherein said microtitre plate comprises at least one physical deformation between at least two adjacent wells. The physical deformations may have the shapeof e.g. a channel, a ridge, a hole, a slit or a step.