The invention relates to a microarray structure that may include a substrate material layer, a continuous three-dimensional (3D) surface layer on the substrate material layer that is capable of functionalisation for use as an array, and an inert material. The structure may include accurately defined and functionalisable isolated areas which are millimeter to nanometer in size. The functionalisable areas may be part of the continuous 3D surface layer and may be isolated by the inert material but interconnected within the structure by the continuous 3D surface layer.

The present invention relates to the use of a control marker for implementing analysis methods on spots, in particular in the context of multiplex analyses. The present invention thus relates to solid supports containing said control marker, their preparation method and their use in analysis methods. The present invention makes it possible to verify the presence, location and/or integrity of the spots at the end of the analysis method, and thus to secure the obtained results while guaranteeing that the yielded result indeed results from a present, intact and localized spot.

An automated microscope slide staining system and staining apparatus and method that features a plurality of individually operable miniaturized pressurizable reaction compartments or a pressurizable common chamber for individually and independently processing a plurality of microscope slides. The apparatus preferably features independently movable slide support elements each having an individually operable heating element.

Disclosed herein are formulations, substrates, and arrays. Also disclosed herein are methods for manufacturing and using the formulations, substrates, and arrays. Also disclosed are methods for identifying peptide sequences useful for diagnosis and treatment of disorders, and methods for using the peptide sequences for diagnosis and treatment of disorders, e.g., celiac disorder. In certain embodiments, substrates and arrays comprise a porous layer for synthesis and attachment of polymers or biomolecules.

Methods and devices are provided herein for surfaces for de novo nucleic acid synthesis which provide for low error rates. In addition, methods and devices are provided herein for increased nucleic acid mass yield resulting from de novo nucleic acid synthesis.

The invention provides an amphiphilic coating for the direct and rapid synthesis of an array of peptides and small molecular compounds on a planar surface of a solid support, comprising a hydrophilic chemical structure and a lipophilic group, wherein said peptides and small molecular compounds differ from spot to spot from each other in the chemical structure, characterized in that said amphiphilic coating possesses low wettability to polar aprotic solvents used in the array synthesis; said amphiphilic coating possessing low wettability is designed that it can be converted to a coating possessing high wettability by hydrolysis of the lipophilic group; and said amphiphilic coating comprises an amino group for the reaction with an electrophilic reagent. The invention further provides a solid support comprising said amphiphilic coating and a method for method for the direct and rapid synthesis of an array of peptides and small molecular compounds on a planar surface of a solid support, wherein said planar surface of a solid support comprises said amphiphilic coating. Said method includes the enhancing of the wettability of a glass surface to organic solvents to realize automated on-demand biomolecular array synthesis comprising both, peptides and small molecular compounds. The amphiphilic surface can be switched to a hydrophilic surface, resulting in high density arrays suitable for protein- and cell-based screening.

Registration of a patterned flow cell may utilize fiducials comprising sets or groupings of features (e.g., sites, sample wells, nanowells) having known locations and in which the placement of the features is not in accordance with a periodic pattern or is otherwise distinguishable from the periodic pattern of sites present in non-fiducial regions of the flow cell substrate. In certain embodiments the positioning of the sites that are part of the fiducial represent a break or discontinuity in the periodic pattern of sites that are otherwise present on the surface of a patterned flow cell.

Disclosed herein are methods for forming one or more nanoparticles. The methods include depositing a solution comprising a block copolymer and a metal salt into one or more square pyramidal nanoholes formed in a substrate, and annealing the substrate to provide a single nanoparticle in each of the one or more square pyramidal nanoholes.

Methods and products for identifying individuals who are likely to respond in a positive (benefit) or negative (harm) manner to a pharmacological drug treatment intended for treating or preventing a neuropsychiatric disorder, neurodegeneration, sleep-wake cycles such including and not limited to Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, autism and attention disorders based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) chromosome 2, 2:107,510,000-107,540,000 locus (as disclosed in the Genome Reference Consortium Human genome build 37 (GRCh37)).

A nano-structured ceramic film with controlled pore size for the high throughput synthesis of oligonucleotides (DNA and RNA). The film can be cut into chips of predetermined size, and code printed for optical recognition in automated DNA synthesizers. The chips are easily activated under very mild conditions and silanization proceeds uniformly to allow reagents to flow unhindered through its open pores. Mono layer modifications, such as covalently bound silane coupling agents, allows for the addition of universal linkers and improved yields compared to conventional approaches.