WO2002014838A3 - Microarray detector and synthesizer - Google Patents

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WO2002014838A3
WO2002014838A3 PCT/US2001/041698 US0141698W WO0214838A3 WO 2002014838 A3 WO2002014838 A3 WO 2002014838A3 US 0141698 W US0141698 W US 0141698W WO 0214838 A3 WO0214838 A3 WO 0214838A3
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Abstract

The present invention relates to novel systems, devices, and methods comprising spatial light modulators for use in the reading and synthesis of microarrays. For example, the present invention provides micromirror systems for synthesizing and acquiring data from nucleic acid microarrays and systems for collecting, processing, and analyzing data obtained from a microarray.
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