Patent ID: 8691149

Claim:
A system comprising: a magnetic particle processor; a multi-well plate; a tip comb; a movable interface; a tip comb rack to support the tip comb; a tip comb platform disposed in the magnetic particle processor; a transfer device to at least one of dispense contents into or aspirate contents from the multi-well plate; a heater thermally coupled to the movable interface to incubate the contents in the multi-well plate; a resistive temperature detector to regulate a temperature of the heater; and a controller to control the movable interface to automatically: load the tip comb into the tip comb platform by inserting the tip comb rack with the tip comb into the magnetic particle processor and unload the tip comb from the tip comb platform by removing the tip comb rack with the tip comb from the magnetic particle processor; and load the multi-well plate into the magnetic particle processor and unload the multi-well plate from the magnetic particle processor.