Picotiter plate

Picotiter plates are flat plates with multiple wells used as small test tubes. It is a miniaturised version of the microtiter and nanotiter plates that are standard tools in analytical research. Picotiter plates are used in the DNA sequencing strategy first exploited by a spin-off company (454 Life Sciences) and commercially available on the market.{{Cite web |url=http://www.454.com/downloads/news-events/history-of-genome-sequencing_FINAL.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707064319/http://www.454.com/downloads/news-events/history-of-genome-sequencing_FINAL.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-07 |url-status=dead }} The picotiter plate platform enables parallel sequence analysis of 1.7 million of separate DNA fragments and thus is capable of sequencing entire genomes within a couple of hours. Titerplates can be produced from photosensitive glass, such as Foturan from SCHOTT Corporation.{{cite web|title=Micromachining of Photostructurable Glass-Ceramics|url=http://invenios.com/products/microfluidics/microfluidics-biotech/titerplates/|access-date=29 October 2015}}