A Novel Molecular Diagnostic Device Using Solid-Phase PCR on a Hotwire Optical Fibre Grating
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Abstract
The usage of fibre optic technologies presents the possibility of high volume manufacturing at low costs when used with novel diagnostic assays. In this thesis, the technologies of hotwire fibre optic devices are combined with in-fibre Bragg gratings to produce a platform compatible with the developing field of Solid Phase PCR (SP-PCR). Here we demonstrate that the DNA coating of such devices can be performed with economical UV-cross-linking. In the process of validating the platform for SP-PCR usage we have also created a novel assay for monitoring real-time polymerase enzyme activity on solidsurface-attached DNA sequences. The device can function with SP-PCR in real-time through its usage of Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF). Our device demonstrates the ability to spatially separate several reactions on a single fibre, representing a novel fibre application, and has the potential to reliably increase the speed and multiplexability of the SP-PCR reactions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".