The invention provides nucleic acids and polypeptides for nucleic acid polymerases from a thermophilic organism, Thermus brockianus. In a hybrid circuit comprising an integrated circuit bonded to a multi-layer package, one or more antenna parameters may be adjusted by configuring a plurality of antenna elements via one or more switching elements. Data in a write-request packet is written to the flash memory, and a message packet sent back over the serial bus. A scriptingscheduling engine coordinates the operation of the experiment engine and the observation module.