The present invention provides a method for the acoustic ejection of fluid droplets from fluid-containing reservoirs to form small volumes high throughput combinatorial experimentation for crystallization. The method is especially suited to preparing combinatorial libraries of small volume crystallization experiments for crystallizing difficult to crystallize biomacromolecules. The small volumes conserve costly and difficult to obtain macromolecules and permit an increased number of experimental crystallization conditions tested for an amount of the biomacromolecule of interest for crystallization. The time required for the experiments is greatly reduced by the scaled down experimental volumes. The invention is conducive to forming high density microarrays of small volume crystallization experiments. Acoustic detection of crystals in situ and distinction between biomacromolecular and non-biomacromolecular crystals is also taught.
                            本发明提供了一种从含流体的储液器中以声学方式喷射流体液滴以形成小体积高通量结晶组合实验的方法。该方法特别适用于制备小体积结晶实验组合库,用于结晶难以结晶的
生物大分子。小体积结晶节省了昂贵且难以获得的大分子,并允许对一定量的感兴趣的
生物大分子进行更多的结晶实验条件测试。由于实验体积缩小,实验所需时间大大缩短。本发明有利于形成小体积结晶实验的高密度微阵列。本发明还可对晶体进行原位声学检测,并区分
生物大分子和非
生物大分子晶体。