Study on Working Path of Microarrayer

摘要

Microarrayer is the key instrument for biochip fabrication. The working process and system configuration of microarrayer are studied briefly. Special attention is paid to the computation method of the microarrayer working path in biochip fabrication. On the condition of given parameters, such as sample variety, slip quantity, spot matrix pattern, pin matrix pattern etc., the working path has been mainly divided into two main sub-path, such as Z axis pin path, XY axis spotting path. Then the tree classing method has been taken to calculate the working path with the given parameters. The method and expressions are presented in detail. The main factors of working path are analyzed in depth. The agreement of the final computation results with the experimental data indicates this method could be used to estimate the working path of microarrayer quickly and effectively at engineering analyses. It also has the significance for design of microarrayer and working path planning.