Patent ID: 11879116
Assignee: DNAE GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC C  B  G | IPC B  C  G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for analysing nucleic acid and comprising:
a cartridge having a reaction chamber having a plurality of wells located on the base of the chamber with respective sensors, the sensors configured or configurable to detect amplification, sequencing, and hybridisation in the reaction chambers;
a fluid transport system for controlling the flow of fluids, including fluids containing said nucleic acid or fragments of said nucleic acid, to the reaction chambers to facilitate a sequence of reactions including amplification, sequencing, and hybridisation of the nucleic acid and/or fragments thereof; and
a controller implemented on a computer, said computer coupled to said sensors and to said fluid transport system, said sensors configured for obtaining detection results including intermediate reaction sequence results, said controller configured to provide a control signal to said fluid transport system to dynamically direct the sequence of reactions for the analysis using the intermediate reaction sequence results, wherein the controller is programmed, based on data provided by the sensors, to determine an instance where there is no amplification, and, when the instance where there is no amplification is detected, the controller is programmed to provide a control signal to said fluid transport system to stop any further reactions taking place, and wherein the controller is further programmed to determine, based on data provided by the sensors, an instance where there is failure to detect hybridisation and provide a control signal to said computer to ignore downstream sequencing reactions.