Patent ID: 6036920
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: B01L,C07K,C12Q,C40B,G01N,Y02A

Abstract:
An apparatus for sensing fluorescent emissions from a plurality of heated samples, comprising:a first heat conducting block configured to receive a first plurality of samples;a temperature controller coupled to said first heat conducting block;a light source disposed adjacent to said first heat conducting block;a fluorescence emission sensor disposed adjacent to said first heat conducting block; anda computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having control logic embodied in said medium, said control logic comprising;thermal unfolding data recording means for causing a computer system to record thermal unfolding data received from said fluorescence emission sensor,thermal curve generation means for causing the computer system to generate thermal curves from the thermal unfolding data; andthermal curve comparison means for causing the computer system to compare thermal curves, said thermal curve comparison means comprising midpoint temperature comparison means for causing the computer system to compare thermal unfolding temperature midpoints of two or more of the samples.