Flow Cell Tiles
Tiles are small imaging areas on the flow cell defined as the field of view by the camera. The total number of tiles depends on the number of lanes, swaths, and surfaces that are imaged on the flow cell, and how the cameras work together to collect the images.
| • | High-output flow cells have a total of 864 tiles. |
| • | Mid-output flow cells have a total of 288 tiles. |
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Flow Cell Component |
High Output |
Mid Output |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Lanes |
4 |
4 |
A lane is a physical channel with dedicated input and output ports. |
|
Surfaces |
2 |
2 |
The flow cell is imaged on two surfaces, the top and bottom. The top surface of 1 tile is imaged, then the bottom surface of the same tile is imaged before moving to the next tile. |
|
Swaths per lane |
3 |
1 |
A swath is a column of tiles in a lane. |
|
Camera segments |
3 |
3 |
The instrument uses six cameras to image the flow cell in three segments for each lane. |
|
Tiles per swath per camera segment |
12 |
12 |
A tile is the area on the flow cell that the camera sees as 1 image. |
|
Total tiles imaged |
864 |
288 |
The total number of tiles equals lanes × surfaces × swaths × camera segments × tiles per swath per segment. |
