摘要 |
<p>A robotic system for performing nucleic acid sequencing reactions in microtiter plate format. The robot (2) is comprised of a robot arm (5) and its controller (9), robot hands (11, 12, 13) with which it can manipulate microtiter plates with lids and microtiter plates without lids and with which it can perform pipetting in the 5 to 200 microliter range, cooled storage chambers (20) with electronically controllable doors (26) for storage of microtiter plates, cooled storage (23) with an electronically controllable cover for storage of nucleic acid sequencing reagents, heating blocks (14) to incubate the reactions at appropriate temperatures above ambient temperature, storage (15) for boxes of micropipet tips, storage (17) for microtiter plates in with sequence reactions will be performed and software fro controlling the operation of the robot during pipetting.</p> |