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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2016
General Automation Lab Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul C. Blainey, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael W. Seely, San Diego, CA (US);
Roman Stocker, Zurich, CH;
Karsten Zengler, Cardiff by the Sea, CA (US);
Scott Conradson, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Peter Christey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Hallock, Redwood City, CA (US);
GENERAL AUTOMATION LAB TECHNOLOGIES INC., San Carlos, CA (US);
Abstract
A microfabricated device defining a high density array of microwells is described for cultivating cells from a sample. A series of unique tags may be disposed in the microwells to identify one or more species of cells and locate the particular microwells in which each species was cultivated. A unique tag may be a nucleic acid molecule including a target-specific nucleotide sequence for annealing to a target nucleic acid fragment and a location-specific nucleotide sequence predetermined to identify one or more microwells. The device may be incubated to grow a plurality of cells, which may be split into an analysis portion and a reserve portion. High throughput methods are described for cultivating, screening, and determining a relative and/or absolute abundance of cells from a sample.