News New cDNA and Oligonucleotide Arrays Available
July 2004
Human CpG “promoter” Arrays Microarrays (human CpG 12K chip) containing 12,192 CpG island clones from the Sanger Institute are now available at a cost of $100 per chip plus labeling costs. The CpG library was originally prepared by Sally Cross in the laboratory of Adrian Bird at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology (University of Edinburgh).
Agilent Rat Oligo Arrays Arrays produced by Agilent containing 60-mer oligonucleotides representing over 20,000 well-characterized, rat transcripts are now available at a cost of $400 per chip plus labeling costs. The array content was developed in collaboration with leaders in toxicogenomics including the NIEHS and Paradigm Genetics. Virtually all the genes on the microarray have associated public domain hits from sources such as SwissProt, GenBank, and RefSeq where relevant and over 70% of the genes on the microarray are annotated with functional descriptions.
Coming Soon! Human BAC Arrays for Array-based Comparative Genomic Hybridization Arrays containing 4200 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones printed in duplicate on a single array will soon be available. The genomic location of 94% of these clones has been FISH verified. The 4200 clones are distributed across the genome at a median spacing of 411 kb if ones excludes the repetitive regions around centromeres, the short arms of the acrocentric chromosomes, and the long arm of the Y chromosome. The set of clones is mainly made up of the FISH mapped clones listed on the CHORI web site, but has also been supplemented with clones that contain genes related to cancer and clones from the subtelomeric regions.
