Illumina Corporation

Steve R Burgett

David Louis Heiner

Michal Lebl

Mark J Nibbe

Aaron Jones

Michel Perbost

Brett M Ellman

Chad F Derosier

Steven P Fambro

Disclosed herein are compositions, methods and systems for the processing of chemical reactions, such as the synthesis of polymers.

Methods and compositions for processing chemical reactions

Described is a system and method for synthesizing polymeric molecules such as oligonucleotides and polypeptides. The system is capable of continuously synthesizing molecules by providing an array of reaction sites and an array of stations for carrying out synthetic manipulations. The reaction sites in the former array can be placed in a fixed order and at fixed intervals relative to each other. Similarly, the stations can be placed in a fixed order and at fixed intervals relative to each other. The two arrays can be moved relative to each other such that the stations carry out desired steps of a reaction scheme at each reaction site. The relative locations of the stations and the schedule for the relative movement can correlate with the order and duration of reaction steps in the reaction scheme such that once a reaction site has completed a cycle of interacting with the full array of stations then the reaction scheme is complete.

Continuous polymer synthesizer

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

Steve R Burgett