CHEMICAL LIBRARIES BASED ON CODED PARTICLES

摘要

The invention provides a chemical library, and a method for making said library, wherein said library comprises a plurality of holders, each holder having a distinguishing machine readable code (the holder code) and each holding a multiplicity of microparticles, each microparticle of each individual holder bearing a machine readable code (the microparticle code) and bearing a chemical or combination of chemicals within the library which is the same as a chemical or combination of chemicals borne by each other microparticle of the respective individual holder, such that each microparticle code maps to a unique chemical or combination of chemicals within the library and each holder code maps to a unique chemical or combination of chemicals within the library.