computer software for use as an information management system for use in laboratories; information management system for use in the laboratories; computer software and hardware for use in the laboratories and analysis fields; 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 of the hybridization of microarrays, probes, slides, computer software for programming hybridization stations, 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, computer software for filtering information on biochip images, electronic photo-documentation apparatus for recording data on the production, hybridization, imaging and analysis of biochips, apparatus and instruments to capture, document, analyze and print images of biochips, optical scanners; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods