The present invention provides for the design of a microfluidic system,
including a microfluidic chip or circuit, using an object oriented
microfluidic computer aided design system. In an embodiment of the present
invention, in a computer system having a computer memory and an
object-oriented environment, a method for physically laying out a
microfluidic circuit, having a plurality of microfluidic components is
provided. First, a first symbol object representing a microfluidic
component is placed, where the first symbol object includes a fluid
channel object which represents a first fluid channel of the microfluidic
component. Next, a connecting fluid channel object on a channel layer is
placed, where the connecting fluid channel object represents a second
fluid channel used to connect two microfluidic components of the plurality
of microfluidic components. The fluid channel object is then linked to the
connecting fluid channel object, where the linking represents connecting
the first fluid channel to the second fluid channel.
