Figure 9.

Characteristics of different microfluidics platforms. Comparisons of key selection criteria for different microfluidic system integration strategies. The properties include portability, the number of samples analyzed in a single assay (throughput), the cost of the instrument, the number of parameters tested for each sample (multiplexity), variety of microfluidic operations (diversity), accuracy, and the flexibility to comply different microfluidic operations without making a new chip (programmability). The higher the rating implies the better performance of the platform in the specific property.