Patent ID: 6913935
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: B01J,C12Q,C40B,G01N,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for assaying N samples, wherein N is greater than or equal to 2, said samples each containing a single compound to be tested, said method comprising: a) providing N populations of carrier beads wherein the carrier beads of each population comprise a detectable label for distinguishing the carrier beads of each population from the carrier beads of every other population, and b) dispensing one distinguishable population of said N populations of carrier beads into a separate, corresponding one of N different reaction vessel, so that said one of N different reaction vessels contains one of said N populations, and performing said dispensing for each population of said N populations; c) dispensing one of said N samples having a single compound to be tested, into a separate, corresponding one of said N different reaction vessels, so that said one of N different reaction vessels contains one of said N samples and one of said N populations, and d) providing in a fluid medium, in each of said N different reaction vessels, reagents for performing a binding assay and wherein said reagents are the same for all said N different reaction vessels, one of said reagents being a second component of said binding pair and wherein said second component carries a signal moiety, under conditions such that a portion of the amount of said second component carrying said signal moiety is caused to be bound to said first component during said assay, in each one of said N different reaction vessels; and e) combining the contents of said N different reaction vessels to form a mixture, and f) analyzing the mixture by flow cytometry wherein