New developments in microarray technology

✍ Scribed by Dietmar H Blohm; Anthony Guiseppi-Elie

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(00)00175-0

✦ Synopsis

Microarrays have emerged as indispensable research tools for gene expression profiling and mutation analysis. New classification of cancer subtypes, dissecting the yeast metabolism and large-scale genotyping of human single nucleotide polymorphisms are important results being obtained with this technique. Realizing the microsphere-based massively parallel signature sequencing technique as fluid microarrays, building new types of protein arrays and constructing miniaturized flow-through systems, which can potentially take this technology from the research bench into industrial, clinical and other routine applications, exemplify the intense developments that are now ongoing in this field.