Patent ID: 6925390

Claim:
A method for designing a microfluidic device, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an interactive interface, accessible over a computer information network, for designing one or more microfluidic devices, (b) receiving from a requester at the interactive interface via the computer information network a request to design a microfluidic device; (c) prompting the requestor for information about desired operational steps to be performed by the microfluidic device; (d) receiving and storing the information about the desired operational steps from the requestor; (e) providing a CAD interface having access to a database of microfluidic device component designs corresponding to a plurality of operational steps performable by microfluidic devices; (f) using the CAD interface to generate a visual display of the microfluidic device viewable by the requestor via the computer information network, the visual display compiled using microfluidic device component designs corresponding to the desired operational steps for the microfluidic device; (g) performing steps (a)-(f) with respect to a first iteration of a microfluidic device, and (h) performing steps (b)-(f) with respect to a second iteration of the microfluidic device, wherein the information from step (d) with respect to the first iteration is made available to the requestor for modification in designing the second iteration.