Fluidigm Corporation

Dropbox, Inc.

Kevin Farrell

Ashish Gandhi

Renjish Abraham

Hou-Pu Chou

Brian Fowler

Kyle Self

Gang Sun

Hany Ramez Nassef

Ian D Manger

Antoine Daridon

Greg Harris

Paul Wyatt

Andy May

Yish-Hann Liau

William Throndset

A system converts the data of data objects stored in a DDOS from one data format to another while the system is live and available to process requests for access to the data objects being converted. This process does not require taking the DDOS offline and also does not require locking a data object for the entire conversion of the data object.

Live data conversion and migration for distributed data object systems

Techniques are disclosed for migrating data objects stored by the source DDOS from the source DDOS to the target DDOS while at least the source DDOS is live and available to process requests for access to the data objects being migrated. The techniques also provide eventual consistency between data objects that are created, updated, or deleted in the source DDOS that are applicable to the migration and that occur while the migration is being performed.

The data of data objects stored in a DDOS are converted from one data format to another. The conversion is performed while the system is live and available to process requests for access to the data objects being converted. The conversion techniques do not require taking the DDOS offline. The conversion techniques also do not require locking a data object for the entire conversion of the data object.

Systems for managing workflows to perform chemical or biological reactions using microfluidic devices.

Analysis engine and database for manipulating parameters for fluidic systems on a chip

The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or detection of particles, such as cells and/or beads. The invention provides systems, including apparatus, methods, and kits, for the microfluidic manipulation and/or analysis of particles, such as cells, viruses, organelles, beads, and/or vesicles. The invention also provides microfluidic mechanisms for carrying out these manipulations and analyses. These mechanisms may enable controlled input, movement/positioning, retention/localization, treatment, measurement, release, and/or output of particles. Furthermore, these mechanisms may be combined in any suitable order and/or employed for any suitable number of times within a system. Accordingly, these combinations may allow particles to be sorted, cultured, mixed, treated, and/or assayed, among others, as single particles, mixed groups of particles, arrays of particles, heterogeneous particle sets, and/or homogeneous particle sets, among others, in series and/or in parallel. In addition, these combinations may enable microfluidic systems to be reused. Furthermore, these combinations may allow the response of particles to treatment to be measured on a shorter time scale than was previously possible. Therefore, systems of the invention may allow a broad range of cell and particle assays, such as drug screens, cell characterizations, research studies, and/or clinical analyses, among others, to be scaled down to microfluidic size. Such scaled-down assays may use less sample and reagent, may be less labor intensive, and/or may be more informative than comparable macrofluidic assays.

Microfluidic particle-analysis systems

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Kevin Farrell