An automated assay system is described with stations for placement of materials to be used in an assay of materials inside capillaries and an automated gripper for manipulating capillaries. The service provider transmits a message including the extracted information to existing subscribers in accordance with each subscriber’s information. Each management module respectively has an authentication device and a transaction device. The dependencies among tables in the source database are discovered, thereby providing an order to the migration operations to be performed when migrating the data. A bore runs through the cylinder liner and the piston reciprocates in the bore.