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Figure 5

From: Novel concept microarray enabling PCR and multistep reactions through pipette-free aperture-to-aperture parallel transfer

Figure 5

2N method. Each well on an MMV can be addressed using the binary number. For example, in case of 16 wells-MMV (16 = 24, N = 4), address-allotting becomes as shown in the center of this figure. If we regard each order (bit) corresponding to a different element (in this case, color), then 4 different (orthogonal) elements need to be prepared. If we take '1' as 'add' and '0' as 'not add', each binary addressing corresponds to directing which elements should be added there. So, the template way (see Fig. 3c) requires 4 different template plates as shown in this figure. By using these four templates, 16 different states can be prepared in an MMV.

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