Batch transfer of zebrafish embryos into multiwell plates

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 625-632

  Zhang, Xuping ^a   Lu, Zhe ^a   Gelinas, Danielle ^b   Ciruna, Brian ^b   Sun, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Batch transfer; control and alignment; cooperative robotic mechanism; drug screen; high throughput screen (HTS); multiwell microplate; zebrafish embryo

Indexed keywords

BATCH TRANSFER; COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS; DRUG SCREEN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MICROPLATES; ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS;

EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTICS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 79960125874     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2011.2121903     Document Type: Article

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