Agilent SurePrint Technology is content centered microarray design enabling speed and flexibility
Agilent SurePrint Technology is a comprehensive approach to microarray design that combines mechanical, biological, and chemical parameters. It ensures the highest quality by integrating best-in-class equipment, reagents, continuous quality control monitoring, and human intervention throughout the creation process.
The manufacturing workflow consists of seven main steps: glass wafer coating, reagent inspection, nucleic acid preparation, inkjet printing with real-time visual monitoring, surface fixation, deactivation to minimize background signal, and final cutting, coding, and quality control. This rigorous process ensures that only microarrays meeting stringent performance criteria are shipped to customers.
There are seven main steps: glass wafer coating, reagent inspection, nucleic acid preparation, inkjet printing, surface fixation and deactivation, cutting into slides with bar-coding, and final quality control inspections.
Agilent purchases only high-quality glass that is uniform in thickness, has a smooth surface free of aberrations or warping, and exhibits minimal inherent fluorescence to optimize scanning conditions.