The present invention relates to biochemistry, medicine, and molecular
biology, in particular to analytical biochemistry and immunochemical
assay, and is concerned with a biological microchip for multiple parallel
detection and quantitative determination of different compounds. The
biochip comprises an array of three-dimensional hydrogel elements which
have a predetermined volume, formed on a support by the method of photo-
or chemically induced polymerization, and containing biological molecules
of the same or different nature (ligands). The invention provides a
method for detecting compounds on the biological microchip, comprising
identification thereof by mass spectrometry techniques directly on the
hydrogel element of the microchip and a method for detecting immunoassay
results, consisting in carrying an immuno-PCR and registering the results
thereof on the same microchip. The invention also relates to a method of
multiple parallel immunoassay of compounds on a biological microchip.
Biological microchips for immunoassay and a method of carrying out
multiple parallel analysis of compounds can find application in analyzing
a wide range of high-molecular and low-molecular compounds, in medicine,
pharmacology, food industry, environmental protection, in research work,
particularly in proteomics.