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Illumina

Illumina's BeadArray Technology is based on 3-micron silica beads that self assemble in microwells on either of two substrates: fiber optic bundles or planar silica slides. When randomly assembled on one of these two substrates, the beads have a uniform spacing of ~5.7 microns. Each bead is covered with hundreds of thousands of copies of a specific oligonucleotide that act as the capture sequences in one of Illumina's assays.

The Direct Hybridization Assay offers the highest level of multiplexing for whole-genome expression profiling available. With the most up-to-date expression content and high-throughput processing, Illumina's whole-genome expression arrays produce high-quality data for large gene expression studies, efficiently and economically.

The HumanHT-12 v4 Expression BeadChip is Illumina's latest whole-genome expression array, providing coverage for more then 47,000 transcripts and known splice variants across the human transcriptome.

BIOGEM processes the following Illumina Beadchips

Whole-Genome Expression Beadchips for Gene Expression Analysis

HumanHT-12 v4 Expression BeadChip

MouseWG-6 v2 Expression BeadChip

MouseRef-8 v2 Expression BeadChip

Please contact Mila Angert for more details.

Last Updated June 2013
By Dr. Kristen Jepsen