Method and apparatus for accessing a site on a biological substrate

摘要

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for facilitating the creation and study of biological substrates. In particular, the present invention allows the location of materials deposited on a substrate to be identified, and communicated with great precision. This in turn allows additional biological materials to be deposited as probes over target locations. The present invention also allows for small regions of biological materials deposited on a substrate to be identified and repeatedly accessed, even when the biological substrate has been removed from the device originally used to review the region of interest and is then reinserted into the original device. Furthermore, the present invention allows a region of interest to be accurately located even using a machine that is different from the machine originally used to identify the region of interest.