Patent ID: 8965710
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: B01L,G01N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a housing; a sample port for placing a liquid biological sample into the housing; a microarray port for inserting a microarray having oligonucleotide probes thereon into the housing; a lysis module within the housing and coupled to the sample port; a purification module within the housing coupled to the lysis module and containing a solid phase comprising covalently immobilized capture probes that are capable of capturing 80% of human genomic DNA; a thermocycling module within the housing coupled to the purification module and capable of containing a polymerase chain reaction; a fragmentation module within the housing coupled to the thermocycling module; and a microarray module within the housing coupled to the fragmentation module and capable of holding the microarray and a liquid in contact with the microarray;