Robotic device for removing selected portions of a polyacrylamide gel

A robotic device for computer-assisted isolation of a protein present in a two dimensional array in a polyacrylamide gel, the device comprising an excision component that is capable of removing a portion of the polyacrylamide gel containing a selected protein in accordance with machine-readable instructions that have been obtained by imaging the gel with an imaging device to generate a computer-readable output and processing the output in a computer to select a protein for isolation and generate the instructions, wherein the robotic device is physically separate from the imaging device.

A robotic device for computer-assisted isolation of a protein present in a two dimensional array in a polyacrylamide gel, the device comprising an excision component that is capable of removing a portion of the polyacrylamide gel containing a selected protein in accordance with machine-readable instructions that have been obtained by imaging the gel with an imaging device to generate a computer-readable output and processing the output in a computer to select a protein for isolation and generate the instructions, wherein the robotic device is capable of isolating the selected protein after the gel has been transferred from the imaging device to the robotic device.

A robotic device for computer-assisted isolation of a protein present in a two dimensional array in a polyacrylamide gel, the device comprising an excision component that is capable of removing a portion of the polyacrylamide gel containing a selected protein in accordance with machine-readable instructions that have been obtained by imaging the gel with an imaging device to generate a computer-readable output and processing the output in a computer to select a protein for isolation and generate the instructions, wherein the robotic device is capable of executing a set of instructions by removing a plurality of portions of the gel containing a plurality of selected proteins.

A robotic device for computer-assisted isolation of a protein present in a two dimensional array in a polyacrylamide gel, the device comprising an excision component that is capable of removing a portion of the polyacrylamide gel containing a selected protein in accordance with machine-readable instructions that have been obtained by imaging the gel with an imaging device to generate a computer-readable output and processing the output in a computer to select a protein for isolation and generate the instructions, wherein the gel is covalently bonded to a generally planar solid support.

A robotic device for computer-assisted isolation of a protein present in a two dimensional array in a polyacrylamide gel, the device comprising an excision component that is capable of removing a portion of the polyacrylamide gel containing a selected protein in accordance with machine-readable instructions that have been obtained by imaging the gel with an imaging device to generate a computer-readable output and processing the output in a computer to select a protein for isolation and generate the instructions, wherein the instructions have been generated by computer-mediated analysis of a plurality of imaged gels.

A robotic device for computer-assisted isolation of a protein present in a two dimensional array in a polyacrylamide gel, the device comprising an excision component that is capable of removing a portion of the polyacrylamide gel containing a selected protein in accordance with machine-readable instructions that have been obtained by imaging a replica of the gel with an imaging device to generate a computer-readable output and processing the output in a computer to select a protein for isolation and generate the instructions.