Patent ID: 7516351
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A distributed testing apparatus that is configured so as to be connectable to a network system to which is connected a host testing apparatus that comprises a host receiver part that receives information comprising test results information and a specimen ID that corresponds to a specimen, a communication part that communicates with a genetic information database, a comparing part that reads out from the genetic information database genetic information that corresponds with the test results information and compares the information, a host transmission part that transmits the comparison information, and a specimen database that stores the test results information corresponding to the specimen ID, wherein the distributed testing apparatus has a testing part that assays genetic information of the specimen, a transmission part that transmits test results information obtained by the testing part and the specimen ID to the host testing apparatus through the network, a receiver part that receives from the network assessment information that was processed by the host testing apparatus on the basis of the transmitted test results information, and an output part that outputs the received information.