Lab-on-a-Chip turns soft : computer-aided, software-enabled microfluidics design Soe, Aung K., Fielding, Michael and Nahavandi, Saeid 2013, Lab-on-a-Chip turns soft : computer-aided, software-enabled microfluidics design, in ASONAM 2013 : Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, IEEE, Piscataway, N.J., pp. 968-971. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Lab-on-a-Chip turns soft : computer-aided, software-enabled microfluidics design Author(s) Soe, Aung K. Fielding, Michael orcid.org/0000-0001-7569-8499 Nahavandi, Saeid orcid.org/0000-0002-0360-5270 Conference name Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. IEEE/ACM International Conference (2013 : Niagara Falls, Ontario) Conference location Niagara, Ontario Conference dates 25-28 Aug. 2013 Title of proceedings ASONAM 2013 : Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Editor(s) Ozyer, Tansel Carrington, Peter Lim, Ee-Peng Publication date 2013 Conference series IEEE/ACM International Conference Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining Start page 968 End page 971 Total pages 4 Publisher IEEE Place of publication Piscataway, N.J. Keyword(s) bioinformatics lab-on-a-chip microfluidics computer aided design Summary The current practice of designing microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip (LoCs) limits reusing designs and makes sharing tasks among researchers difficult. One way to achieve that objective is to borrow best practices from engineering. Also it takes a lot of skills to design LoCs. Design-by-assembly in which a LoC can be designed by configuring, laying out subsystems can help new researchers to develop custom chips. Flexible, reusable, and rapid-prototyping-feasible LoC designs can be achieved by fabricated modular microfluidic blocks. However, challenging problems still persist, which limit the usefulness of prefabricated blocks. We propose software microfluidic modules (SoftMABs) based design technique to solve issues fabricated modules face. By configuring SoftMABs, integrating them, the new assembly of SoftMABs can form a 3D LoC design ready to be prototyped. The proposed method can make designing a complex LoC less challenging, and collaborating among laboratories easier. We created SoftMABs and designed a custom microfluidic chip by assembling SoftMABs like LEGOs, dragging-and-dropping them. Later we reconfigured them - by replacing a SoftMAB with another module - to make a new LoC. We believe this computeraided method is an interesting and useful LoC design technique. Language eng Field of Research 100402 Medical Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl Biosensors) Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2013, IEEE Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30057135 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI) GTP Research   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 23 Oct 2013, 09:57:37 EST Wed, 23 Oct 2013, 14:02:54 EST Thu, 31 Oct 2013, 15:34:46 EST Fri, 01 Nov 2013, 08:11:09 EST Fri, 01 Nov 2013, 12:57:08 EST Tue, 01 Jul 2014, 10:00:33 EST Fri, 10 Oct 2014, 09:12:30 EST Wed, 21 Oct 2015, 14:51:35 EST Wed, 21 Oct 2015, 18:22:30 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 606 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 23 Oct 2013, 09:57:37 EST

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