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Title: Sample collection system for gel electrophoresis

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1175044

An automatic sample collection system for use with an electrophoretic slab gel system is presented. The collection system can be used with a slab gel have one or more lanes. A detector is used to detect particle bands on the slab gel within a detection zone. Such detectors may use a laser to excite fluorescently labeled particles. The fluorescent light emitted from the excited particles is transmitted to low-level light detection electronics. Upon the detection of a particle of interest within the detection zone, a syringe pump is activated, sending a stream of buffer solution across the lane of the slab gel. The buffer solution collects the sample of interest and carries it through a collection port into a sample collection vial.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
Assignee:
University Of California, The Regents Of
Patent Number(s):
6,793,790
Application Number:
09/875,333
OSTI ID:
1175044
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Automated DNA fragment collection by capillary array gel electrophoresis in search of differentially expressed genes journal January 2000
Preparative Electrophoresis in a Concentrated Polymer Solution: Automated Procedure for Microsome Isolation journal April 1997

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