TRACKABLE OPTICAL DISCS WITH CONCURRENTLY READABLE ANALYTE MATERIAL

摘要

Design, manufacture and use of optical discs that permit the concurrent and discriminable acquisition of signals from both operational structures and nonoperational structures is presented. The disc geometries and tracking schemes permit such discs to be read in, and data encoded by nonoperational structures reported by, standard (or minimally-modified) optical disc readers. Single data layer first and second surface discs are described, as are multiple data layer discs. Use of the discs in analyte-specific assay is presented.