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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2002
John F. Corson, Stanford, CA (US);
Debra A. Sillman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jayati Ghosh, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth L. Staton, San Carlos, CA (US);
John F. Corson, Stanford, CA (US);
Debra A. Sillman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jayati Ghosh, San Jose, CA (US);
Kenneth L. Staton, San Carlos, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for preventing signal clipping in a molecular array scanner by adding an offset signal to the signal generated by the photodetectors and initial stages of signal processing within a molecular array scanner in order to promote the signal above the level where signal information is lost during analog-to-digital signal conversion and/or digital signal integration. A portion of the offset is then subtracted from the digital signal or integrated digital signals, leaving a smaller, constant offset that is reported to the user, stored in a data file, or otherwise made available for further correction during later molecular array data processing.