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Miniaturization of biological and chemical assays in lab-on-a-chip systems is a highly topical field of research. Full custom centric design of dropletbased microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems leads to a high system integration level and design complexity. We report on a software toolkit for modelling droplet traffic and processing for complex microfluidic networks. As a result, the advantages of lab-on-a-chip systems will be accessible for more people through the easy, versatile and efficient transformation of complicated laboratory workflows to easy to use lab-on-a-chip applications.
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Nils Gleichmann Jahrgang 1979. Informatikstudium an der Universität Jena, dort 2013 Promotion. Seit 2013 Postdoc am Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien, Jena.
Thomas Henkel Jahrgang 1962. Chemiestudium an der Universität Jena, dort 1993 Promotion. 1994–1997 Postdoc am Universitätsklinikum Jena. Seit 1997 Entwicklung Biotechnischer Mikrosysteme am Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien, Jena. Seit 2002 Leiter der Forschungsgruppe „Mikrofluidik“.
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Gleichmann, N., Henkel, T. Lab-on-a-chip-Systementwicklung für den Laboralltag. Biospektrum 21, 617–620 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-015-0623-6
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