A high-performance online assay interpreter for digital microfluidic biochips

We introduce an online interpreter to execute biochemical assays on droplet-based digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs). Online interpretation enables adaptivity, e.g., response to faults during assay execution, variable-latency assay operations, and concurrent workloads whose composition is not known statically. Our online method routes droplets dynamically, making decisions in milliseconds while running on a low-cost Intel Atom™ processor. Copyright 2012 ACM