Particle simulation of traveling wave gel electrophoresis

• Published in: 2005 3rd IEEE/EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnology in Medicine and Biology pp. 356 - 359
• Main Authors: Lean, M.H., Hsieh, H.B., Volkel, A.R.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Electrodes; Electrokinetics; Electrostatics; Frequency response; Phased arrays; Predictive models; Proteins; Runtime; Strips; Voltage

This paper describes a 3D particle model to simulate conventional DC and traveling wave gel electrophoresis. Traveling waves sustain much higher fields for increased speed, but require much lower voltage which does not scale with gel dimension. Secondary refinement after initial separation allow for...