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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2001
José A. Olivares, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Peter C. Stark, Los Alamos, NM (US);
John M. Dunbar, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Karen K. Hill, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Cheryl R. Kuske, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Gustavo Roybal, Espanola, NM (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
An automatic sample collection system for use with an electrophoretic slab gel system is presented. The collection system can be used with a slab gel have one or more lanes. A detector is used to detect particle bands on the slab gel within a detection zone. Such detectors may use a laser to excite fluorescently labeled particles. The fluorescent light emitted from the excited particles is transmitted to low-level light detection electronics. Upon the detection of a particle of interest within the detection zone, a syringe pump is activated, sending a stream of buffer solution across the lane of the slab gel. The buffer solution collects the sample of interest and carries it through a collection port into a sample collection vial.