Architecture of a Consumer Lab-on-Chip for Pharmacogenomics

This paper presents the architecture of the electronic detection and data processing (analysis) part, of a lab-on-chip (LoC) device. The LoC consists of a microfluidics part for the sample preparation and hybridization, a micro-system part including the sensors for the hybridization electronic detection and finally a processing part for the data analysis and the consumer interface for results presentation. Consumers will use such LoCs for identifying the appropriate cluster of a pharmacogenomic medicine based on the gene analysis results and optimize the effectiveness of the drug or determine whether they belong to a group of patients who would suffer severe side effects.