Automation of reagent based assays, transformed the traditional "beaker chemistry" from labor intensive time consuming task, into computer assisted microfluidic interface that yields desired information in real time. The transport of sample trough a number of operations needed to obtain a result can be automated in two ways, in the batch mode or in the flow mode...
Batch processing is based on the classical approach, designed at the time, when, trough quantitative analysis, chemistry became a science.. In batch mode, each sample to be analyzed is assigned a container, within which the steps of a desired assay are being performed.
Also known as: Flow Injection Tutorial