$5 mill. sounds like numbers for the whole shooting match. Kans, washing, sorting, cleaving and archiving setup. This is actually pretty reasonable considering, the cost of developing a similar setup for microkans.
For a microkan setup 70K would get you a scanner, a PC, and 500 tags....Washing machine was something like 300K.
I'm almost certain they will have a low cost option for the nanokans as well.
Nanokans don't use the RF tags. They use something the equivalent of a 2 dimensional barcode that is read optically. The upside with nanokans is greater compatibility with 96 well plate formats, easier washing, and less dead volume(no RF tags).
There were 3 papers published in JACs that describs the whole nanokan system
Nicolaou, K. C., Mitchell, H. J. etal. J. Am Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 9939-53
it's way cool...
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