Laboratory apparatus and instruments, namely, apparatus and instruments for use in the production, hybridization, imaging and analysis of biochips; hybridization stations, namely, automated workstations for the conditioning, probe introduction, and automation of wash and thermal cycles for the hybridization of microarrays; slides made of glass, computer software for programming hybridization stations excluding computer software for measuring the expression of levels of all RNA transcripts in a cell, tissue or nucleic acid sample; robotic workstations for use in automated colony and plaque picking and rearraying, biochip production, gridding of DNA or colonies; pneumatic pin heads for colony and plaque picking; CCD cameras for selecting colonies; well plates; pin tools for use in printing and gridding DNA; life science image analysis instruments and apparatus, namely, computer software and hardware for sizing, quantifying, pattern matching and data basing of biochip images excluding computer software for measuring the expression levels of all RNA transcripts in a cell, tissue or nucleic acid sample; computer software for filtering information on biochip images excluding computer software for measuring the levels of all RNA transcripts in a cell, tissue or nucleic acid sample; electronic photo-documentation apparatus for recording data on the production, hybridization, imaging and analysis of biochips; apparatus and instruments to capture, document, analyze arid print images of biochips; optical scanners; photographic cameras; video cameras; CCI) cameras; exposure controls for use with photographic, video, and CCD cameras; lenses for photographic, video and CCD cameras; computer software for use in controlling and automating the production, hybridization, imaging and analysis of biochips excluding computer software for measuring the expression levels of all RNA transcripts in a cell, tissue or nucleic acid sample; computer printers; computer monitors; computer keypads; hard drives; disk drives; CD ROM drives