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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2013
Raindance Technologies, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Darren Link, Lexington, MA (US);
Laurent Boitard, Gullford, CT (US);
Jeffrey Branciforte, Cromwell, CT (US);
Yves Charles, Waterbury, CT (US);
Gilbert Feke, West Simsbury, CT (US);
John Q. Lu, Gullford, CT (US);
David Marran, Durham, CT (US);
Ahmadali Tabatabai, Branford, CT (US);
Michael Weiner, Guilford, CT (US);
Wolfgang Hinz, Guilford, CT (US);
Jonathan M. Rothberg, Guilford, CT (US);
Raindance Technologies, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides novel microfluidic devices and methods that are useful for performing high-throughput screening assays and combinatorial chemistry. Such methods can include labeling a library of compounds by emulsifying aqueous solutions of the compounds and aqueous solutions of unique liquid labels on a microfluidic device, which includes a plurality of electrically addressable, channel bearing fluidic modules integrally arranged on a microfabricated substrate such that a continuous channel is provided for flow of immiscible fluids, whereby each compound is labeled with a unique liquid label, pooling the labeled emulsions, coalescing the labeled emulsions with emulsions containing a specific cell or enzyme, thereby forming a nanoreactor, screening the nanoreactors for a desirable reaction between the contents of the nanoreactor, and decoding the liquid label, thereby identifying a single compound from a library of compounds.