Patent ID: 8685750

Claim:
Method comprising: providing a dispenser containing a plurality of different first reagents arranged in first and second columns and first and second rows defining a first array; providing first and second targets including wells arranged in first and second columns and first and second rows defining a second array and including second reagents, with the first and second columns and the first and second rows of the first array corresponding to the first and second columns and the first and second rows of the second array; aligning the dispenser with the first array of the first reagents with the wells of the first target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first reagents into the wells of the first target; moving the first and second targets relative to the dispenser in a direction parallel to the first and second columns of the first and second targets; and aligning the dispenser with the first column of the first array of first reagents with the second column of the wells of the second target and actuating the dispenser to dispense the first column of first reagents into the wells of the second column of the second target.