Perkinelmer Las, Inc.

Packard Bioscience Company

Todd J Stephan

Mack J Schermer

David A Noblett

Jun Yang

James W Sim

Bruce Tyley

A configurable mutual exclusion function oversees movement of appliances mobile over a common physical space in an automated laboratory workstation. A configurable mutex is allotted for each moveable appliance and is configurable to protect a task site when obtained for the respective appliance.

Mutex-mediated control of spatial access by appliances moveable over a common physical space

A scanner system analyses data plotted in a scatter plot in accordance with user-specified criteria or statistical measures from the data population, to produce a scatter plot that displays in the plotted data the boundaries for the selection of out-lyer points and/or otherwise visually denotes in the plotted data which points are the out-lyer points. The scanner system analyzes the underlying data based on user-specified differential expression ratios, or based on criteria associated with the statistics of the data population, to produce out-lyer boundaries that are represented by diverging lines. Alternatively, the system may analyze the underlying data based on absolute expression levels, to produce boundaries that are represented in the plot by lines that meet at an identity line of slope. The scanner system may also combine several criteria and produce boundaries that denote as out-lyers the data that, for example, show both sufficient differential expression and also include individual expressions that are sufficiently above an associated noise floor.

Interactive system for analyzing scatter plots

Method and system are disclosed for interactively developing at least one grid pattern, such as a microarray pattern, as well as an array set of such patterns, and a computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method given only a few user inputs through the use of a pointing device such as a mouse or trackball on a personal computer or workstation. Each array in the set typically has an identical number of rows and columns of points.

Method and system for interactively developing at least one grid pattern and computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method

A scanner system analyses data plotted in a scatter plot in accordance with user-specified criteria or statistical measures from the data population, to produce a scatter plot that displays in the plotted data the boundaries for the selection of out-lyer points and/or otherwise visually denotes in the plotted data which points are the out-lyer points. The scanner system analyzes the underlying data based on user-specified differential expression ratios, or based on criteria associated with the statistics of the data population, to produce out-lyer boundaries that are represented by diverging lines. Alternatively, the system may analyze the underlying data based on absolute expression levels, to produce boundaries that are represented in the plot by lines that meet at an identity line of slope 1. The scanner system may also combine several criteria and produce boundaries that denote as out-lyers the data that, for example, show both sufficient differential expression and also include individual expressions that are sufficiently above an associated noise floor.

Method and system for overlaying at least three microarray images to obtain a multicolor composite image, which is then displayed on a monitor of a computer system. The microarray images are taken from a microarray scanner of a DNA microarray and can be viewed simultaneously through the use of the image overlays where each image is represented by a different color. Each pixel of the composite image is generated by the OR operator applied to all corresponding pixels of the microarray images. Registration of the microarray images can be altered with a keyboard or mouse of the computer system.

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Santa Clarita, CA, United States of America

Todd J Stephan