No, in the long run, not great for CALP. I would guess that Fluidigm's technology is the best in class. But they aren't on the market with this stuff yet.
Anyhow, here's a rather vague abstract associate with this:
>>Published online September 26, 2002 Thorsen, T. || Quake, S. R.
Submitted on August 5, 2002
Accepted on September 17, 2002
Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration
Todd Thorsen 1, Sebastian J. Maerkl 1, Stephen R. Quake 2*
1 Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Option, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
2 Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: quake@caltech.edu.
We developed high-density microfluidic chips that contain plumbing networks with thousands of micromechanical valves and hundreds of individually addressable chambers. These fluidic devices are analogous to electronic integrated circuits fabricated using large-scale integration. A key component of these networks is the fluidic multiplexor, which is a combinatorial array of binary valve patterns that exponentially increases the processing power of a network by allowing complex fluid manipulations with a minimal number of inputs. We used these integrated microfluidic networks to construct the microfluidic analog of a comparator array and a microfluidic memory storage device whose behavior resembles random-access memory.
Science 10.1126/science.1076996<<
Cheers, Tuck |
