GRAPHIC DESIGN OF COMBINATORIAL MATERIAL LIBRARIES

摘要

A computer-implemented method for generating a library design for a combinatorial library of materials, wherein a combinatorial library is a collection of two or more members that contain some variance in chemical composition, chemical amount, reaction conditions and/or processing conditions, a member being a single position in a library, comprising: defining a set of one or more sources and one or more destinations, each source being electronic data representing a component to be used in preparing the combinatorial library and each destination being electronic data representing a conceptual arrangement of cells, the cells corresponding to members of the combinatorial library and/or locations on a physical substrate; receiving an input defining a set of first mappings, the first mappings comprising electronic data defining a set of equations for calculating an amount of one or more components to be assigned to one or more cells in an arrangement; using the set of equations to calculate a composition of a material assigned to one or more of the cells; and generating a data file defining the library design, the data file comprising electronic data representing the sources, the destinations and the mappings.