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A chemical solution distribution system and method that includes or employs a plurality of liquid handlers where each of the liquid handlers includes a movable table that engages a sample multiwell plate and can align pipettes of the station with different subsets of wells of the multiwell plate whe

A chemical solution distribution system and method that includes or employs a plurality of liquid handlers where each of the liquid handlers includes a movable table that engages a sample multiwell plate and can align pipettes of the station with different subsets of wells of the multiwell plate where the number of wells of the multiwell plate is a multiple of the number of pipettes of the head of the pipette station. The system further includes and employs four different pumps to enable the system and method to supply four different solutions to wash stations of each of the four liquid handlers.

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1. A chemical solution distribution system for distributing chemical solutions to a plurality of multiwell plates having N wells with I subsets of M wells, I being an integer and greater than one, the system comprising:a plurality of liquid handlers, each said liquid handler including: a head capabl

1. A chemical solution distribution system for distributing chemical solutions to a plurality of multiwell plates having N wells with I subsets of M wells, I being an integer and greater than one, the system comprising:a plurality of liquid handlers, each said liquid handler including: a head capable of moving in a Z-direction, said head having M pipettes; and a table configured to engage one of said plurality of multiwell plates and movable in an X-Y plane relative to Z, said table capable of moving to at least I different positions, wherein at each of said at least I different positions, said M pipettes of said head are aligned with a different one of said I subsets of M wells of said one of said plurality of multiwell plates, and with the proviso that M is about 864 or less.