ライフサイエンス分野における半導体デバイスの用途と付加価値

Abstract

Molecular biology definition, its ins and out

• Biological compound comparative size scale
• Description of biological compound functions and interactions
• Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Glycomics, Metabolomics description

Presentation of the gold standard techniques used today in Life Sciences

• Cultures
• Sample preparation
• PCR amplification
• Nucleic acids separation and detection
• Proteins separation and detection
• Immunoassays
• HPLC columns
• Mass spectrometry

What is the Life Sciences field?

• Description of the different industrial domains
• Market size
• Main players of the field

Why semiconductor devices and MEMS could be useful for Life Sciences applications

• Applications
• Functions
• Technologies
• Products proposed and development on going with related players
• Market size potential 2005 -- 2010

Detailed analysis of each application

• Biochips
• Microfluidics
• Proteomics
• Lab On Chip (LOC)
• Drug delivery systems

Value chain analysis for biochips, microfluidics and LOC devices

• Assessment of the positioning of IC devices
• What will change and what will never change

Examples of companies' success and failure

• Affymetrix
• Agilent
• Infineon
• microParts

The companies under analysis in this report are the following: Affymetrix, Agilent, Aventis, bioM駻ieux, Debiotech, Infineon, microParts, Motorola, Novartis, Philips, Psivida, STMicroelectronics...Motorola ...