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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2012
Applicants:
Victor Joseph, Fremont, CA (US);
Amjad Huda, Fremont, CA (US);
Alnoor Shivji, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
WAFERGEN, INC., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); B01L 7/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/25 (2006.01); G01N 21/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 7/5255 (2013.01); G01N 21/253 (2013.01); B01L 7/54 (2013.01); B01L 2200/147 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0819 (2013.01); B01L 2300/0893 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1805 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1827 (2013.01); B01L 2300/1844 (2013.01); G01N 21/0332 (2013.01);
Abstract
Apparatus, systems, chips, and methods of performing a large number of simultaneous chemical reactions are provided herein. The chips of the invention comprise addressable units that can be addressed according to the temperature of the reaction to be run. The subject apparatus, systems, and chips are particularly suited for performing polymerase chain reactions on thousands of nucleic acid sequences, up to and including sequences of an entire genome of an organism of interest.