The main steps involved and limitations of microarray analysis will be encountered. Two stages can be distinguished in microarray experiments: a pre-microarray experiment phase (tissue handling ...

Watch a summary video of the microarray experiment Further Exploration Key Questions What does whole-genome microarray look like?

Data analysis for gene expression microarrays is an evolving field, Dr. Amaratunga emphasizes. “The technology is improving and people are running experiments with greater precision, but the ...

The first step in using a microarray is to collect healthy and cancerous tissue samples from the patient. This way, doctors can look at what genes are turned on and off in the healthy cells ...

Microarrays allow scientists to see how differences in gene expression are linked to specific diseases. Improving and standardizing microarray experiments will also allow earlier detection of ...

Courtesy of CombiMatrix The research community's rapid acceptance of microarrays notwithstanding, technical challenges remain. Biochip developers continue to grapple with these issues while upgrading ...

Microarrays allow scientists to see how differences in gene expression are linked to specific diseases. Improving and standardizing microarray experiments will also allow earlier detection of ...

Gene expression microarray experiments are intrinsically two-phase experiments. Messenger RNA (mRNA), required for the microarray experiment, must first be derived from plants or animals that are ...

Microarrays experiments reveal changes in the mosquito transcriptome in response to infection and stress.

Quality control of microarray experiments Optimizing array experiments at the front end reduces the time and effort required to subsequently invalidate erroneous expression results.

Time course microarray experiments designed to characterize the dynamic regulation of gene expression in biological systems are becoming increasingly important. One critical issue that arises when ...

The high-throughput nature of microarray experiments imposes numerous limitations, which apply to simple issues such as sample acquisition and data mining, to more controversial issues that relate ...