Picotiter plates are flat plates with multiple wells used as small test tubes.
It is a miniaturised version of the microtiter and nanotiter plates that are standard tools in analytical research.
Picotiter plates are used in the DNA sequencing strategy first exploited by a spin-off company (454 Life Sciences) and commercially available on the market.
[1] The picotiter plate platform enables parallel sequence analysis of 1.7 million of separate DNA fragments and thus is capable of sequencing entire genomes within a couple of hours.
Titerplates can be produced from photosensitive glass, such as Foturan from SCHOTT Corporation.