DocumentCode
228660
Title
Enhancement of multiple parallel assay operations with cross contamination avoidance in a given biochip
Author
Dhal, Debasis ; Datta, Piyali ; Chakrabarty, Arpan ; Pal, Rajat Kumar
Author_Institution
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Assam Univ., Silchar, India
fYear
2014
fDate
13-14 Feb. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
7
Abstract
Digital microfluidic biochips are restructuring many areas of Biochemistry, Biomedical sciences, and Microelectronics. It is also known as `Lab-on-a-Chip´ for its recognition as a substitute for laboratory experiments. In recent times, due to emergency and cost efficacy, more than one assay operations are required to be performed at the same time. So, parallelism is a must in designing biochips. Having an area of a given chip as a constraint, how efficiently we can use a restricted sized chip and how much parallelism can be built-in are the objectives of this paper. A specific application of an assay may characterize a sample where, say only one type of reagent and multiple samples have been considered, or vice versa, and identify some parameter(s) of the sample(s) under requirement in parallel. In our experimentation, we essentially do this task in parallel for five such sets of subregions of a given restricted sized chip in digital microfluidics using an array based partitioning pin assignment technique, where cross contamination problem has also been considered, and efficiency of proper taxonomy of a given sample has also been improved.
Keywords
bioMEMS; biochemistry; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidics; array based partitioning pin assignment technique; assay operations; biochemistry; biochip designing; biomedical sciences; cross contamination avoidance; cross contamination problem; digital microfluidic biochips; lab-on-a-chip; laboratory experiments; microelectronics; multiple parallel assay operation enhancement; multiple samples; reagent; restricted sized chip; subregions; taxonomy; Biology; Ink; Parallel processing; Roads; Silicon; Synchronization; Algorithm; Cross contamination; Design automation; Lab-on-a-chip; Parallelism; Pin constrained design; Reagent; Sample; Wash droplet;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Coimbatore
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-2321-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECS.2014.6892723
Filename
6892723
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