OPTICAL DISK, APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING AN OPTICAL CONTROL, METHOD FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OR THE ABSENCE OF AN ANALYTE IN A SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL OR BIOCHEMICAL SAMPLE

摘要

The invention relates to an apparatus including an optical disk adapted to be read by an optical reader, which comprises a first sector having self-contained assay means for locating an analyte suspected of being in a sample, to at least one predetermined location, and a second sector containing control means for conducting the assay information concerning the location of the analyte relative to one or more analytes suspected of being in the sample, accessible to the reader, where the presence or the absence of the analyte at said location is determinable by the reader by using the control and the location information means. Depending on the type of the analysis, the disk has some fluid storage means some fluid transfer means such as one or more capillary ducts, valves, batteries, dialyzers, columns, filters, sources of electric fields, wires or other electrical conductive means such as metallic surface deposit and the like.