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To: tuck who wrote (667)	6/13/2001 3:17:06 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1784

$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... Rob