Characterization of a newly developed chicken 44K Agilent microarray.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The development of microarray technology has greatly enhanced our ability to evaluate gene expression. In theory, the expression of all genes in a given organism can be monitored simultaneously. Sequencing of the chicken genome has provided the crucial information for the design of a comprehensive chicken transcriptome microarray. A long oligonucleotide microarray has been manually curated and designed by our group and manufactured using Agilent inkjet technology. This provides a flexible and powerful platform with high sensitivity and specificity for gene expression studies.

Results

A chicken 60-mer oligonucleotide microarray consisting of 42,034 features including the entire Marek's disease virus, two avian influenza virus (H5N2 and H5N3), and 150 chicken microR

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2262898 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature