Title: Reactant and Waste Minimization in Multitarget Sample Preparation on Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Authors: Huang, Juinn-Dar
Liu, Chia-Hung
Lin, Huei-Shan
電子工程學系及電子研究所
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
Keywords: Biochip;digital microfluidic biochip (DMFB);dilution;multitarget sample preparation;reactant minimization;waste minimization
Issue Date: 1-Oct-2013
Abstract: Sample preparation is one of essential processes in biochemical reactions. Raw reactants are diluted in this process to achieve given target concentrations. A bioassay may require several different target concentrations of a reactant. Both the dilution operation count and the reactant usage can be minimized if multiple target concentrations are considered simultaneously during sample preparation. Hence, in this paper, we propose a multitarget sample preparation algorithm that extensively exploits the ideas of waste recycling and intermediate droplet sharing to reduce both reactant usage and waste amount for digital microfluidic biochips. Experimental results show that our waste recycling algorithm can reduce the waste and operation count by 48% and 37%, respectively, as compared to an existing state-of-the-art multitarget sample preparation method if the number of target concentrations is ten. The reduction can be up to 97% and 73% when the number of target concentrations goes even higher.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2013.2263035
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/22713
ISSN: 0278-0070
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2013.2263035
Journal: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Volume: 32
Issue: 10
Begin Page: 1484
End Page: 1494
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