APPARATUS FOR, AND METHOD OF, STORING A PLURALITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS

摘要

Combinatorial chemistry is a technique of generating large numbers of chemical compounds which are stored in libraries. The invention provides apparatus and method of storing the libraries on a variety of media, for rapid and easy access. An example of a storage medium is a tape wound on a reversible spool system. The tape has a unique address system and is able to store a very large number of chemical species in individual enclosed cells. Access to each cell may be by way of a syringe. This permits a small amount of each substrate to be removed without cross-contaminating another cell.