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US 2004/0171167 A1Published application
Chip-in-a-well scanning
AssigneeAffymetrix, Inc.
InventorsMelvin Yamamoto, Stephen P. A. Fodor, Richard P. Rava
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Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, methods and apparatus for packaging microarray suspended in a well of a well plate are provided. In another embodiment of the invention, microarrays can be successfully scanned with its target surface up or down.
Claims11
A method of packaging a microarray comprising:
- placing a microarray in a well of a well plate;
- wherein the microarray is suspended in the well.
A method of scanning a microarray chip comprising:
- dicing one or more wafers into individual microarrays;
- placing the individual microarrays into a well of a well plate;
- wherein the individual microarrays are conatined into the well in a suspended form with an optically clear window;
- scanning the microarrays through the optically clear window.
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