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The Affymetrix West Sacramento Manufacturing plant. |
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Affymetrix production operator transfers wafers at the cleaning wetbench. |
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An anti-reflective coating is applied to the substrate. |
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Affymetrix production operator transfers coated wafers at the silanation wetbench. |
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Affymetrix production operator inspects a cassette of coated substrates. |
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Affymetrix production operator loads a wafer into the modular oligo synthesizer, which performs sequential addition of phosphor ammodites to the wafer. |
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A wafer is loaded onto the chemical station for nucleotide addition. |
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An Affymetrix operator transfers wafer from the photoaligner to the chemistry station during the photolithographic manufacturing process. |
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An Affymetrix operator inspects a photolithographic mask prior to installation in the aligner. |
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Affymetrix production operator aligns a GeneChip wafer on the pick-and-place machine, which takes the individual arrays from the wafer and places them into an aluminum tray in preparation for assembly into the GeneChip® cartridge. |
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A synthesized wafer about to be placed onto the tape mounting station. |
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Affymetrix production operator secures the wafer to a tape ring prior to dicing. |
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134 KB |
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Affymetrix production operator inspects a mounted wafer. |
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85 KB |
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A mounted wafer is loaded into the dicing saw. |
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An Affymetrix wafer being cut into individual arrays by a diamond-bladed saw. One 5x5 array can be cut into as many as 6,400 separate arrays. |
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The wafer after it has been mounted on the adhesive plastic film. |
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Affymetrix operator glues an array into a plastic GeneChip® cartridge. |
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126 KB |
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Affymetrix production operator inspects a labeled cartridge. |
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Affymetrix production operator inspects a labeled cartridge. |
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A barcoded Affymetrix label is applied to an array. |
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Affymetrix QC technician loads GeneChip® cartridges into the hybridization oven for overnight incubation. The oven's 45C temperature and the rotisserie motion encourage the DNA sample to hybridize to the DNA probes on the array surface. |
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Affymetrix QC technician injects a sample into a cartridge for testing. |
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An Affymetrix QC technician analyzes a scanned image of an array.
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