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- D. D. Shoemaker, E. E. Schadt, C.
D. Armour, Y. D., He, P. Garrett-Engele, P. D. McDonagh, P. M. Loer ..., Experimental
annotation of the human genome using microarray technology, Nature
Volume 409 Number 6822 Page 922 - 927 (2001)
- Kane MD, Jatkoe TA, Stumpf CR, Lu
J, Thomas JD, Madore SJ, Assessment of the sensitivity and specificity of
oligonucleotide (50mer) microarrays. Nucleic Acids Res 2000
Nov 15;28(22):4552-7. Abstract
- G. MacBeath and S.L. Schreiber, Printing
Proteins as Microarrays for High-Throughput Function Determination, Science
2000 September 8; 289(5485): p. 1760-1763. Abstract
(New! Protein chip)
- Taton TA, Mirkin CA, Letsinger RL.[Northwestern
U.] Scanometric DNA array detection with nanoparticle probes. Science.
2000 Sep 8; 289(5485):1757-60. Seem to offer great selectivity and sensitivity.
Abstract
- Jörg Reichert et al., Chip-Based
Optical Detection of DNA Hybridization by Means of Nanobead Labeling, Anal.
Chem., 72 (24), 6025 -6029, 2000. Abstract
- Reinke V, Smith HE, Nance J, Wang
J, Van Doren C, Begley R, Jones SJ, Davis EB, Scherer S, Ward S, Kim SK [Stanford]
A global profile of germline gene expression in C. elegans. Mol Cell
2000 Sep;6(3):605-16. URL
- Marx J. DNA Arrays Reveal Cancer in
Its Many Forms. Science2000 September 8; 289: 1670-1672. (in
News Focus)
- DJ Lockhart and EA Winzeler. Genomics,
gene expression and DNA arrays. Nature, 2000, 405(6788):827-836.
- Cortese JD, The Array of Today: Biomolecule
arrays become the 21st century's test tube, The Scientist 14[17]:25,
Sep. 4, 2000 URL
- Cortese JD, Array of Options: Instrumentation
to exploint the DNA microarray explosion, The Scientist 14[11]:26,
May. 29, 2000 URL
- Fritz J, Baller MK, Lang HP, Rothuizen
H, Vettiger P, Meyer E, Guntherodt H, Gerber C, Gimzewski JK. Translating
biomolecular recognition into nanomechanics. Science. 2000 Apr
14;288(5464):316-8. [Medline]
- Mark Schena (Ed.), Microarray Biochip
Technology, $49.95, Eaton Publishing Company, Distributed by TeleChem
/ arrayit.com
- Scherf U, Ross DT, Waltham M, Smith
LH, Lee JK, Tanabe L, Kohn KW, Reinhold WC, Myers TG, Andrews DT, Scudiero
DA, Eisen MB, Sausville EA, Pommier Y, Botstein D, Brown PO, Weinstein JN.
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Genet. 2000 Mar;24(3):236-44. [Medline]
[Authors' Web site]
- Ross DT, Scherf U, Eisen MB, Perou
CM, Rees C, Spellman P, Iyer V, Jeffrey SS, Van De Rijn M, Waltham M, Pergamenschikov
A, Lee JC, Lashkari D, Shalon D, Myers TG, Weinstein JN, Botstein D, Brown
PO. Systematic variation in gene expression patterns in human cancer
cell lines. Nat Genet. 2000 Mar;24(3):227-35. [Medline]
[Authors' Web site]
- Walt DR. Bead-based
Fiber-Optic Arrays. Science, 2000 January 21; 287: 451-452.
(in Tech.Sight)
- Afshari CA, Nuwaysir EF, Barrett JC
[NIEHS] Application of complementary DNA microarray technology to carcinogen
identification, toxicology, and drug safety evaluation. Cancer Res
1999 Oct 1;59(19):4759-60
- Gwynne P. and Page G. Microarray
analysis: the next revolution in molecular biology. Science, 1999
August 6. (special advertising supplement; has a list of microarray-related
companies)
- Baldwin D, Crane V, Rice D. A
comparison of gel-based, nylon filter and microarray techniques to detect
differential RNA expression in plants. Curr Opin Plant Biol1999
Apr;2(2):96-103
- Pollack JR, Perou CM, Alizadeh AA,
Eisen MB, Pergamenschikov A, Williams CF, Jeffrey SS, Botstein D, Brown PO
[Stanford] Genome-wide
analysis of DNA copy-number changes using cDNA microarrays. Nat Genet
1999 Sep;23(1):41-6
- Khan J, Saal LH, Bittner ML, Chen
Y, Trent JM, Meltzer PS. Expression
profiling in cancer using cDNA microarrays. Electrophoresis 1999
Feb;20(2):223-9
- Gerhold D, Rushmore T, Caskey CT [Merck].
DNA
chips: promising toys have become powerful tools. Trends Biochem Sci
1999 May;24(5):168-73
- Ekins R. and Chu F.W. Microarrays:
their origins and applications. Trends in Biotechnology, 1999,
17, 217-218.
- Nuwaysir, E.F., Bittner, M., Trent,
J., Barrett, J.C., and Afshari, C.A. Microarray
and Toxicology: The Advent of Toxicogenomics. Molecular Carcinogenesis,
1999, 24:153-159.
- Sinclair, B. Everything's
Great When It Sits on a Chip - A bright future for DNA arrays, The Scientist, 1999 May
24, 13(11), 18-20.
- Nature
Genetics published a special issue (January 1999 Supplement),
The
Chipping Forecast. It's a collection of more than 10
reviews (60 pages) on different aspects of microarray analysis. All the
reviews are freely available online.
- Biochips:
From Technologies to Markets, 2nd Edition, (IBC's
D&MD Report , March 1999, 200+ Pages, 25+ Exhibits, 20+ Companies
Profiled, $4,950!)
- Schena, M. and Davis, R.W. Genes,
Genomes and Chips. In DNA Microarrays: A Practical Approach (ed. M.
Schena), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1999.
- Marton MJ, DeRisi JL, Bennett HA,
Iyer VR, Meyer MR, Roberts CJ, Stoughton R, Burchard J, Slade D, Dai H, Bassett
DE Jr, Hartwell LH, Brown PO, Friend SH [Rosetta/Stanford]. Drug target validation
and identification of secondary drug target effects using DNA microarrays.
Nat Med. 1998 Nov;4(11):1293-301. [Medline]
(convincing results on the utility of microarray technology for drug target
validation and identification.)
- Wang DG, Fan JB, ..., Lander ES, et
al [MIT] Large-scale identification, mapping, and genotyping of single-nucleotide
polymorphisms in the human genome. Science 1998 May 15;280(5366):1077-82
- Schena, M. and R.W. Davis. Parallel
Analysis with Biological Chips. in PCR Methods Manual (eds. M. Innis, D. Gelfand,
J. Sninsky), Academic Press, San Diego, 1998. (Sorry, I haven't seen
it yet.)
- Lemieux, B., Aharoni, A., and M. Schena.
Overview of DNA Chip Technology. Molecular Breeding 1998,
4, 277-289.
- Schena, M., Heller, R.A., Theriault,
T.P., Konrad, K., Lachenmeier, E., and Davis, R.W. Microarrays: biotechnology's
discovery platform for functional genomics. Trends in Biotechnology
1998, 16, 301-306.
- Service, R.F. Microchip arrays put
DNA on the spot. Science 1998, 282(5388), 396-399.
- Service, R.F. Coming soon: the pocket
DNA sequencer. Science 1998, 282(5388), 399-401.
- Kricka, L. Revolution on a Square
Centimeter. Nature Biotechnology 1998, 16, 513.
- Housman, D.; Ledley, F. Why pharmacogenomics?
Why now? Nature Biotechnology 1998, 16(6), 492-493.
- Ramsay, G. DNA
chips - states-of-the-art. Nature Biotechnology 1998, 16(1),
40-44.
- Marshall, A.; Hodgson, J. DNA
chips - an array of possibilities. Nature Biotechnology 1998,
16(1), 27-31.
- Kononen J, Bubendorf L, Kallioniemi
A, Barlund M, Schraml P, Leighton S, Torhorst J, Mihatsch MJ, Sauter G, Kallioniemi
OP. Tissue
microarrays for high-throughput molecular profiling of tumor specimens.
Nat Med 1998 Jul;4(7):844-847
- Blanchard, A.P. (1998) Synthetic
DNA Arrays; in Genetic Engineering, Vol. 20, pp. 111-123, edited by J.K. Setlow,
Plenum Press, New York.
- Proudnikov D, Timofeev E, Mirzabekov
A [Argonne]. Immobilization
of DNA in polyacrylamide gel for the manufacture of DNA and DNA-oligonucleotide
microchips. Anal Biochem 1998 May 15;259(1):34-41
- Chen JJ, Wu R, Yang PC, Huang JY,
Sher YP, Han MH, Kao WC, Lee PJ, Chiu TF, Chang F, Chu YW, Wu CW, Peck K Profiling
expression patterns and isolating differentially expressed genes by cDNA microarray
system with colorimetry
detection. Genomics 1998 Aug 1;51(3):313-24.
- Wallace, R. W. DNA
on a chip - serving up the genome for diagnostics and research. Molecular
Medicine Today 1997, 3, 384-389.
- Covacci, A.; Kennedy, G. C.; Cormack,
B.; Rappuoli, R.; Falkow, S. From microbial genomics to meta-genomics. Drug
Development Research 1997, 41, 180-192.
- Forozan, F.; Karhu, R.; Kononen, J.;
Kallioniemi, A.; Kallioniemi, O. P. Genome
screening by comparative genomic hybridization. Trends in Genetics
1997, 13, 405-409.
- Sapolsky, Ronald J.; Winzeler,
Elizabeth A. The
Functional Analysis Of Genomes: Recent Research In The Laboratory Of Dr. Ronald
Davis (at Stanford University)
- Blanchard, A.P. & L. Hood.
Sequence to array: probing the genome's secrets. Nature Biotechnology
14:1649, 1996
- Blanchard, A.P., R.J.Kaiser, L.E.Hood.
High-Density Oligonucleotide Arrays. Biosensors & Bioelectronics 11:687-690,
1996
- DeRisi J, Penland L, Brown PO, Bittner
ML, Meltzer PS, Ray M, Chen Y, Su YA, Trent JM [Stanford and NIH] Use
of a cDNA microarray to analyse gene expression patterns in human cancer.
Nat Genet 1996 Dec;14(4):457-60
- Shalon D, Smith SJ, Brown PO [Stanford]
A DNA microarray system for analyzing complex DNA samples using two-color
fluorescent probe hybridization. Genome Res 1996 Jul;6(7):639-45
- Schena M, Shalon D, Heller R, Chai
A, Brown PO, Davis RW [Stanford] Parallel human genome analysis: microarray-based
expression monitoring of 1000 genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996
Oct 1;93(20):10614-9
- Schena M, Shalon D, Davis RW, Brown
PO [Stanford] Quantitative monitoring of gene expression patterns with a complementary
DNA microarray. Science1995 Oct 20;270(5235):467-70
数据库
Academic Links
- Many academic organizations have set
up their mciroarray
core facilities in order to make this technology accessible to their reserchers.
Dr. Wentian Li of Rockefeller University maintains a list of such core facilities.
- DNA
Microarray (Genome Chip) homepage (this site, created by Dr. Leming Shi),
is a good starting point and contains a lot of useful links and background
information. This site was reviewed
by Science magazine.
- Science magazine maintains
an excellent collection of information on functional
genomics. (www.sciencegenomics.org)
- Dr. Ruth Alscher (ralscher@vt.edu)
at Virginia Tech maintains an excellent Web site GRID
IT on DNA Microarrays (http://www.bsi.vt.edu/ralscher/gridit).
- Gene-Arrays mailing
list (maintained by Chandi Griffin
at San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF). To subscribe, send a one line e-mail
message to listserv@listserv.ucsf.edu; the
single line message should be: subscribe Gene-Arrays your-first-name your-last-name.
This is a very good place to ask all kinds of questions regarding gene chips
and DNA microarrays. To post a question to the whole mailing list, send email
to GENE-ARRAYS@ITSSRV1.UCSF.EDU.
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF GENE-ARRAYS"
command to listserv@listserv.ucsf.eduFAQ in PDF
- PlantArrays Mailing
List To subscribe send the word "subscribe" to plantarrays-request@genome.stanford.edu.
- Tim Tranbarger maintains the Plant-Array
Website in the context of the WWW Virtual Library ( http://www.w3.org/vl/).
- A microarrays newsgroup was recently
made available at http://www.egroups.com/group/microarray/
(maintained by Philippe Marc).
- The Association of Biomolecular Resource
Facilities (ABRF)'s Microarray Research
Group (MARG)
conducted a survey on the current status of the microarray technology.
The results is presented in a poster:
"THE STATE OF THE ART OF MICROARRAY ANALYSIS: A PROFILE OF MICROARRAY
LABORATORIES."
- The
Microarray Site of Nature Genetics
- Nobel
Laureate Martin L. Perl's group at the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is investigating if their new drop-on-demand
inkjet technology originally designed for the searching of certain hypothetical
types of elementary particles would be of use in the production of DNA
microarrays.
- Stanford University's Dr. Patrick Brown, one of the
major players in this field. This group has a complete guide for researchers
to build their own microarrayer,
at a fraction of the price of commercial products
- DNA Microarray Protocols
of Dr. Mark Schena: very detailed and useful information on performing
DNA microarray experiments.
- Dr. Mark Schena Home Page
- NIST ATP Awards
1998: Tools for DNA Diagnostics (7 of the 29 proposals were awarded)
Check project manager Dr. Stanley Abramowitz's overview
talk on this field
- CGAP
(Cancer Genome Anatomy Project) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH.
- Microarray Project at
the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI),
NIH
- The
NIEHS cDNA Microarray Center: Human ToxChip v 1.0, Human Discovery Chip,
Yeast Chip, Rat Chip, Xenopus Chip v 1.0, and Mouse Chip.
- Dr.
John N. Weinstein at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
developed an "information-intensive"
anticancer drug discovery approach that integrates chemical structure information
and anticancer activity patterns of >70,000 screened compounds with gene
expression (microarray) data of the 60 human cancer cell lines
- Dr.
Alan Robinson's web resource on Gene
Expression and Microarray Technologies, at EBI. (highly recommended) links
to public sources of expression data, informatics, analysis tools, ...
- Andreas
Matern's home page on DNA Microarrays
- PhRMA's
Microarrays
and "DNA chips" site
- Anatomy
of a Comparative Gene Expression Study (by Jeremy
Buhle). It's a very nice description of the microarray technology, also
includes a Glossary
of Microarray-related Biotechnology Terms
- Whitehead
Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT Center for Genome Research
- Dr. Geoffrey
Childs, Functional Genomics
at AECOM, Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine
- Computational
Genomics at Harvard University (Dr. George M. Church, a lot of very useful
links)
- Human
Genome Project Information at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, U.S. Department of
Energy
- National Human Genome Research Institute
(NHGRI) is developing "Tissue Chip"
to Illuminate the Cancer Development Process. NIH Clinical Study: 97-C-0178:
Fludarabine Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: cDNA Microarray Gene
Expression Analysis, and Preclinical Bone Marrow Transplant/Immunotherapy
Studies
- Garner
Lab at UTSW - Gene Networks
- DNA Microarray Technology
to identify genes controlling spermatogenesis, Sam Ward at the University
of Arizona
- Vivian
Cheung's Lab at The Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia focuses on the development of Direct Identical-by-Descent
(IBD) Mapping, which is a DNA microarray-based mapping technique that allows
isolation and mapping of DNA fragments shared IBD between individuals.
- University of Washington, Dr. Lee Hood, Java-based
Array Image Spot Finding and Quantification Software (CrazyQuant)
- Dr.
Bernd Weisshaar's listing of DNA microarray links (plants), Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung
- Dr.
Landers' Group at the University of Pittsburgh is developing microcolumn
technology for clinical diagnostics. This capillary-based Integrated Diagnostic
(ID) Chip may have great potential in clinical diagnostics.
- Dr. Claude
Jacq's group at ENS, France. They also maintain a discussion list:
pucesadn@ens.fr
- Toxicogenomics
homepage at the Chemical Industry Institute
of Toxicology (CIIT): discusses how the DNA microarray technology is impacting
toxicological research.
- Dr. Kent Vrana's Gene Expression
Technology Group at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
- The Vanderbilt University Microarray Core Facility (microarrays.com)
offers microarray-based products and services.
- MRC Toxicology Unit DNA
Microarray Pages maintained by Dr Timothy W. Gant.
- The Nylon
MicroArrays site provides detailed information on the use of nylon microarrays
(allowing expression profiling with small amounts of unamplified RNA) and
a number of useful utilities for choosing and checking IMAGE clones representing
given genes. contact: jordan@ciml.univ-mrs.fr
- Arabidopsis
Functional Genomics Consortium (AFGC) at Stanford University, funded by
NSF: microarrays, knockouts, and plant-specific
genes.
- Dr. Eiichiro
Ichiishi of Kyoto Prefectural Univ. of Medicine maintains a Web site on
DNA chip technology (in Japanese).
- Dr.
Michael C. Pirrung at Duke University is developing novel methods to cleave
DNA strands into the shorter fragments for DNA chip analysis and DNA chip computation.
- ArrayNL platform©:
DNA-chips and microarrays in the Netherlands, maintained at the Department
of Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center.
- The Microarray Centre
at The Ontario Cancer Institute.
- Links to DNA Microarray
protocols , maintained by Longcheng Li at UCSF
- Biochip
Research & Development Center, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China.
Director: Dr. Jing Cheng.
- Natl.
Lab. of Molecular and Biomolecular Elecctronics, Southeast Univ., Nanjing,
China.
- Zicai
Liang at Karolinska Institutet.
- KIChip: Karolinska
Institute cDNA Micro-Array Core Facility
- Dr. Gerhard M. Kreshach maintains
a list of more than 1000 links to to Life Science News, Resources & Databases,
including DNA, Oligonucleotide,
and Protein Arrays
- Fission yeast functional
genomics group at The Sanger Centre headed by Dr. Jurg Bahler.
- The
Xenopus Microarray Project at Rockefeller Univ., includes protocols, software,
and links.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Microarray Consortium (EPAMAC)
(Great!)
- The
Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips at Virgnia Commonwealth
University and the Medical Colleage of Virginia Health System focuses on next
generation microarrays, integrated molecular electronic devices using biologically
active molecules and neurochips.
- St. George's Hospital Medical School's
microarray facility on Bacterial
Microarrays.
- UCLA Human
Genetics DNA Microarray Core Facility
- Cornell
Weill Medical College DNA Microarray Core Facility (Dr.
Jenny Z. Xiang)
- Baylor
College of Medicine Microarray Core Facility
- ORNL's
Links to the Genetic World
- Scottish
Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics, Scotland University of
Edinburgh.
Industry Links (Companies
are listed alphabetically.)
- ACLARA
BioSciences, Inc., (used to be called Soane Biosciences) Hayward, California
(Plastic chips and microfluidic systems based on "Lab-On-A-Chip"
microfluidics US Patent 5,750,015: "Method
and device for moving molecules by the application of a plurality of electrical
fields") Wins
NIST ATP Award in "Tools for DNA Diagnostics" for Project: Multiplexed
Sample Preparation Microsystem for DNA Diagnostics
- Advanced
Array Technology S.A. (Belgium), BIO-CD™:
compact disc platform for DNA detection
- Affymetrix,
Inc., Santa Clara, California (The technology leader; manufactures the
widely used GeneChip®arrays,
including HIV, p450, p53, Rat Toxicology U34 arrays, etc.)
- Agilent
Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, California), a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard
Company, plans to expand its presence in the life science market through the
introduction of a new DNA microarray program.
It uses inkjet printing technology to manufacture its oligo-based DNA microarrays.
Licensed from Ed Southern/OGT. LabChip™-based DNA and RNA bioanalyzer.
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., New
Haven, Connecticut
- Alpha
Innotech Corp., San Leandro, CA. Provides instruments and software for
chemiluminescence, fluorescence, and colorimetric imaging.
- AlphaGene,
Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts (full length cDNA FLEX™ and MicroFLEX
library construction; High Throughput Gene Expression Profiling; High Throughput
DNA Sequencing; Bioinformatics)
- Applied
Precision, Inc., Issaquah, Washington. ArrayWoRx is a wide field light
source based microarray scanner, combines limitless wavelength possibilities
with automation and image processing software.
- Asper
Ltd., Estonia. Arrayed Primer Extension (APEX)
and Asper ChipReader
003
- AVIVA
Biosciences Corp., San Diego, CA. Dedicated to the application of
breakthrough multiple-force biochip technology for genomics and proteomics.
The company is developing an integrated sample-to-result AVIChip™ system
with an emphasis on biological sample preparation and chip-based molecular
manipulation. The AVIChip™ system will separate and transport a variety
of mRNA, or other molecules from crude biological samples and simultaneously
perform a wide range of biological and biochemical analyses. AVIVA's technology
allows fast, accurate, automated, and high-throughput biological analysis
on integrated biochip systems and provides novel approaches to both drug development
and clinical diagnostics.
- Axon
Instruments, Inc., Foster City, California (GenePix
4000 Integrated Microarray Scanner and Analysis Software, simultaneously
scans microarray slides at two wavelengths using a dual laser scanning system,
displays images from two wavelengths and a ratio image as they are acquired
in real time; US$50,000)
- AxyS
Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, California: Wins NIST ATP Award
in "Tools for DNA Diagnostics" Project: Liquid
Array Technology Development
- Beckman-Coulter
- Beecher
Instruments, Silver Spring, MD. Tissue array technology for high-throughput
analysis of tissue specimens.
- BioArray
Solutions, LLC, Piscataway, NJ. Light-controlled Electrokinetic Assembly
of Particles near Surfaces (LEAPS), enables computer controlled assembly
of beads and cells into planar arrays within a miniaturized, enclosed fluid
compartment on the surface of a semiconductor wafer.
- BioChip
Technologies
- bioDevice
Partners, Cohasset, MA. Provides consulting services to the microarraying
community in the area of optics and instrumentation
- BioDiscovery,
Inc., Los Angeles, California (ImaGene™,
special image processing and data extraction software)
- Biodot
- Biomedical
Photometrics, Inc., (MACROscope™ for reading genetic microarrays,
in collaboration with Canadian Genetic Microarray Consortium)
- bioMerieux,
in vitro diagnostics
- BioRobotics
Ltd., Comberton, Cambridge, UK (MicroGrid, for arraying oligonucleotides
or cDNA clones on glass slides and plastic chips)
- Brax, Cambridge, UK
- Cadus
Pharmaceutical Corp., Tarrytown, New York (yeast living chip)
- Caliper
Technologies Corp., Palo Alto, California: LabChips™ based on microfluidics.
Awarded
$2 million contract by NIST to develop high-throughput DNA diagnostic platform.
Project: Reference
Laboratory LabChip™ DNA Diagnostics System
- Capital
Biochip Corp., Beijing, China. Co-founded on 30th September 2000 by
Tsinghua University, Huazhong University
of Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Academy
of Military Medical Sciences. The registered capital for Capital Biochip
is RMB $390 million with RMB $240 million contributed by the four institutional
founding members and RMB $150 million from international venture capital firms.
(Note: 1 US dollar = ~8.2 RMB). It is backed by funds from the Chinese
governmental agencies to developed and commercialize various biochip technologies.
It is recruiting qualified
researchers from the world.
- Cartesian
Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA. PixSys
PA Series: for Automated liquid handling system for creating high-density
arrays for genomics research. Scan
Array 3000: A Fluorescent Imaging System for microarray biochips.
- Celera,
Rockville, Maryland (Everyone knows this company!)
- Cellomics,
Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ArrayScan™, cell-based "High
Content Screening" (HCS) for drug discovery)
- Cepheid
Sunnyvale, California (microfluidics)
- Clinical
Micro Sensors, Inc., Pasadena, California. Now part of Motorola. DNA microchip-based
medical diagnostics; detection of directly detect DNA via electron transfer.
Wins NIST ATP Award
in "Tools for DNA Diagnostics" Project: DNA
Diagnostics for the Point of Care Using Electronic Nucleic Acid Detection
- Clontech's
AtlasTM human cDNA array (nylon-membrane based)
- CombiMatrix
Corporation, Burlingame, CA.
- Compugen's
LEADSTM drug discovery platform for identifying drug targets based
on the analysis of EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) and genomic databases, expression
results from chips and proteomics, and polymorphism detection and qualification;
DNA chip design and analysis. LabOnWeb.com
- Corning
Science Products Division, Acton, MA provides the (Corning Microarray
Technology) CMT-GAPS
amino silane coated slides and CMT-Hybridization
chamber.
- Corvas
International, Inc., (2D gel, proteomics)
- Cruachem
Ltd, U.K. manufactures the phosphoramidite building blocks for the synthesis
of DNA. Its expertise in DNA technology provides an efficient service for
the supply of DNA oligonucleotides. Cruachem Ltd is enthusiastically looking
for partners with which to collaborate in the area of DNA chip technology.
- CuraGen
Corp., New Haven, Connecticut. GeneCalling™ and Quantitative
Expression Analysis (QEA™), CuraMode, CuraTox
- diaDexus,
LLC, Santa Clara, California. joint venture between SmithKline
Beecham Corp. and Incyte Pharmaceuticals,
Inc.. Specialized in using microarray technology for molecular diagnostics
- Display
Systems Biotech, Inc, Vista, CA and Copenhagen, Denmark. discoveryARRAY
slides (over 2400 expressed cDNA fragments); will soon offer over 40,000 arrayed
mouse and human genes; GEE-NOME
BioInformatic system.
- DNAmicroarray.com.
offers complete "made to order" high density DNA microarray synthesis
and analysis services. Prices, availability, and turnaround time seem impressive.
- Eurogentec,
Seraing, Belgium. Sells yeast and Bacillus subtilis genomic membranes.
- Gel biochip
- First
Genetic Trust, Inc., Deerfield, IL. Acting as a third-party intermediary
among researchers, health care providers and patients. Its goal is to build
a comprehensive, high-security, independent "genetic bank".
- Gene
Logic, Inc., Columbia, Maryland (Flow-thru
ChipTM: has hundreds of thousands of discrete microscopic channels
that pass completely through it. Probe molecules are attached to the inner
surface of these channels, and target molecules flow through the channels,
coming into close proximity to the probes. This proximity facilitates hybridization.
READS™, Restriction Enzyme
Analysis of Differentially-expressed Sequences, for capturing and analyzing
the overall gene expression profile of a given cell or tissue type to identify
drug targets)
- Genemachines
Genomic Instrumentation Services, Inc., Menlo Park, California (OmniGrid,
glass slides or nylon membranes, similar to Dr. Pat Brown's)
- General
Scanning Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts (laser scanning and micropositioning,
manufactures MicroArray Biochip Scanning System: ScanArrayTM).
Now called GSI
Lumonics
- GeneScreen,
Inc., The Genetics Profiling Company
- Genisphere,
Oakland, New Jersey. Provides fluorescently-labeled kits for gene expression arrays.
(uses highly branched nucleic acids - dendrimer technology)
- GeneTrace
Systems
- Genetic
Analysis Technology Consortium (GATC)
- Genetic
MicroSystems Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts (instrumentation for DNA microarray-based
analysis) Acquired by Affymetrix.
- Genetix
Ltd., Christchurch, Dorset, UK (Q-Bot, Q-Pix)
Genicon Sciences Corp, San Diego,
CA. Developed an ultra-sensitive signal generation and detection platform
technology based on Resonance Light Scattering (RLS) for the simple and efficient
detection, measurement and analysis of biological interactions.
- Genome
Systems Inc., St. Louis, MO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Incyte Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., GDA: Gene Discovery
Array
- Genometrix
Inc., The Woodlands, Texas (Bioscanner™, GeneView®, Universal
Arrays™, Risk-Tox)
- Genomic
Solutions, Ann Arbor, Michigan (Flexys™ modular robotic system,
GeneTAC™ and Genomic Integrator™ array analysis products automates
the imaging and analysis of gene microarrays.)
- GENPAK
Inc, Stony Brook, NY. genpakARRAY
21 robotic microarrayer system and genSTATION
3XL manual microarrayer system.
- GENSET,
Paris, France (specialized in pharmacogenomics)
- Genemed
Synthesis Inc., South San Francisco, CA. Supplies oligos.
- GenomeWeb,
print and electronic provider of news and information on the business and
technology of genomics and bioinformatics worldwide.
- GeSiM,
Germany. The Nano-Plotter is
based on piezoelectric pipetting principle.
- Genzyme
Molecular Oncology (SAGE®:
Serial Analysis of Gene Expression)
- HP GeneArray
Scanner (used by Affymetrix and others)
- Hyseq
Inc., Sunnyvale, California (Sequencing
By Hybridization. HyX platform and Gene Discovery, HyGnostics, and HyChip™
modules)
- Illumina,
Inc., San Diego, California. utilizes fiber optics, microfabrication,
and advanced information processing to create arrays where 250,000 discrete
sensors fit on a probe the diameter of the head of a pin.
- I.M.A.G.E. Consortium:
"Sharing resources to achieve a common goal - the discovery of all genes"
- Incyte
Genomics, Inc., Palo Alto, California (GEM Microarrays,
GeneJetTM array, LifeSeq® Database with estimated
100,000 genes, and LifeArray Microarray
Software)
- IntegriDerm,
Inc., Huntsville, AL. Produces DermArray DNA microarrays for dermatologic
research.
- Intelligent
Bio-Instruments, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- JMAR's
Precision Systems, Inc., Chatsworth, CA. Designer and manufacturer of
UV exposure and mask aligner systems specifically designed for bio-chip manufacturers.
Also produces custom micropositioning systems for micro-spotting equipment
and high resolution dimensional metrology and defect inspection systems for
quality assurance of bio-chips and DNA microarrays.
- Lab-on-a-Chip.com,
provides focused information on all Lab-on-a-Chip technologies. It includes
published papers, news, events, new products, suppliers, research links, jobs
and discussion forums.
- Labman
Automation Ltd., North Yorkshire, TS9 5JY, UK (HDMS: Labman High-Density
Microarray Spotter)
- Lifecodes
Corp., Stamford, Connecticut (Lifecodes MicroArray System: LMAS)
- Lynx
, Megasort™ is a bead-based
process providing differential DNA analysis.
- Mergen
Ltd., San Leandro, CA. ExpressChip™
oligonucleotide microarray. Offers a full range of services.
- Micralyne
Inc., (formerly Alberta Microelectronic Corp.) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Fabricates micromachined glass, silicon and thin film components for use in
microfluidics.
- MicroFab
Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX. manufactures piezoelectric drop-on-demand
ink-jet printing technology for
microdispensing fluids.
- Micronics,
Inc., Redmond, Washington. microfluidics based systems for application
to clinical laboratory diagnostics: Microcytometer™, H-Filter™,
T-Sensor™, and O.R.C.A. µFluidics.
- Molecular
Dynamics, Inc., Sunnyvale, California (Storm® and FluorImager®)
- Molecular
Tool, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. Genetic Bit Analysis, GBA®,
Genomatic™. Acquired by Orchid Biocomputer
on September 14, 1998.
- Mosaic
Technologies, Inc., Waltham, MA. EZ-RAYSTM
activated slide kits for DNA microarrays.
- Motorola
BioChip Systems. Licensed a 3-D gel pad technology from Argonne
National Laboratory.
- Nanolytics
is developing Custom Array Synthesis Technology
- Nanogen,
San Diego, California (Electronic Addressing, Concentration, and Hybridization)
- NEN
Life Science Products, Boston, MA (MICROMAX™
Human cDNA Microarray System I for differential gene expression analysis)
- Oncormed
Inc., (acquired by Gene Logic
in July, 1998) characterizes genes to establish their clinical relevancy and
provides molecular profiling of patients for pharmacogenomic and therapeutic
purposes
- Operon
Technologies, Inc., Alameda, CA. Low density (320 or 370 genes, 70-mers)
OpArraysTM microarrays.
- Orchid
BioSciences, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey (a Sarnoff
company) microfluidic chips; applying microfabrication processes in glass,
silicon, and other materials to create three dimensional structures.
Contained within these devices are small capillary channels less than a millimeter
wide. Wins NIST ATP Award
in "Tools for DNA Diagnostics" Project: Polymerase
Signaling Assay for DNA Variation Detection on Universal Processor Arrays
It also has a Web site on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
- OriGene
Technologies Inc., Rockville, MD. Offers SmartArray™
chips (Huamn), including nuclear hormone receptors, homeobox/b-zip/HLH transciption
factors, tissue-specific/inducible transcription factors , and phosphotyrosine
Kinases.
- Oxford
Gene Technology Ltd (Ed Southern) Oligo-based microarray
- Packard
Instrument Company, Meriden, Connecticut. (BioChip
Arrayer)
- PamGene
B.V., The Netherlands. flow-through technology for microarray.
- PE Applied Biosystems, Wins NIST ATP Award
in "Tools for DNA Diagnostics" for project: Integrated,
Micro-Sample Preparation System for Genetic Analysis
- PharmaSeq,
Inc., Monmouth Junction (near Princeton), NJ. Developer of microtransponder-based
technology for DNA diagnostic assays. Wins NIST ATP Award
in "Tools for DNA Diagnostics" for project: Multiplex
DNA Diagnostic Assay Based on Microtransponders
- Phase-1
Molecular Toxicology, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico. Molecular and high throughput
toxicology using gene chips (Licensed from Xenometrix)
- Proligo
LLC, Boulder, CO. Nucleic acid supplier.
- Protogene
Laboratories, Palo Alto, California (Surface tension array on glass substrate;
"Printing" reagents using drop-on-demand technology)
- R&D
Systems, Minneapolis, M. Cytokine
Expression Array allows one to determine the RNA level for approximately
400 cytokines and related factors in one standard hybridization experiment.
(charged nylon membrane)
- Radius
Biosciences, Medfield, Massachusetts. Custom DNA, RNA, PNA, and
Protein MicroArray Chips.
- Research
Genetics, Huntsville, Alabama (GeneFilter)
- RoboDesign
International Inc., Carlsbad, CA. Its RoboArrayer is integrated
with a vision system to allow for real-time quantification of spot size and
spot volume during the printing process.
- Rosetta
Inpharmatics, Kirkland, Washington. FlexJet™
DNA oligonucleotides microarrays (in-situ synthesized on a glass support via
ink-jet printing process); Resolver™
Expression Data Analysis System.
- SciMatrix,
Inc., Durham, NC. Offers ArrayWorksTM, a complete line of custom
microarray services, for the production, processing, and analysis of microarrays,
using PixSysTM arrayers from Cartesian
Technologies. It also provides customized ArrayEngineTM microarray
systems.
- Sequana
Therapeutics (merged with Arris Pharmaceutical to become AxyS Pharmaceuticals), La Jolla, California
- Sequenom,
Hamburg, Germany, and San Diego, California (DNA MassArray, BiomassPROBE,
Biomass SIZE, BiomassSEQUENCE, BiomassSCAN, BiomassINDEX, and SpectroChip)
- Sigma-Genosys
Ltd., The Woodlands, Texas (Panorama™E.
coli Gene Arrays, 4,290 genes per array)
- SuperArray
Inc., Bethesda, MD. Their gene expression array (GEArray™ ) systems
(Human and mouse) are designed for pathway-specific gene expression profiling.
Also offers ChoiceGEArray to meet customer's specific requirements.
- SurModics,
Inc., Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Manufactures 3D-LinkTM activated
slides for the production of microarrays. Uses amine-modified DNA to
hybridize on the surface of the slide.
- Synteni,
Inc., Fremont, California (acquired by Incyte
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in January 1998) (UniGEM™
Gene Expression Microarray)
- The German Cancer Institute, Heidelberg,
Germany
- TeleChem
International, Sunnyvale, California (offers whole system parts: ChipMaker,
SmartChips, ArrayIt, Hybridization Cassette,
ScanArray 3000, ImaGene Quantification Software, and Super Microarray Substrates)
- Third
Wave Technologies, Inc., Madison, WI. Develops and commercializes simple,
low-cost nucleic acid platform technologies to fundamentally alter disease
discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Invader®
assay and CFLP® Technology
- Tissue
Array, for expression study of protein and in situ screening of mRNA.
- V&P
Scientific, Inc., San Diego, CA. Supplies inexpensive replicators ($3000
or so) that will make macroarrays on membranes, or microarrays on slides.
- Virtek
Vision International Inc. (Ontario, Canada) ChipReader™
is a high-sensitivity laser confocal system for rapid imaging of the DNA microarrays.
- Vysis,
Inc., Downers Grove, Illinois (CGH-Comparative Genomic Hybridization;
The GenoSensor
Microarray System includes genomic microarrays, reagents, instrumentation
and analysis software.)
- Xanthon,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has developed a multiplexed, microplate-based
electrochemical detection system for high-throughput screening of compounds
for their effects on gene expression. Based on measurement of the oxidation
of guanine on an electrode.
- Xenometrix,
Inc., Boulder, CO (Gene Profile Assay and bioinformatics for gene induction
profile analysis; a demo is available)
- XENOPORE
Corp., Hawthorne, NJ. Manufacturer of coated microscope slides,
including silanated, silylated, epoxy, streptavidin, nickel chelate, and many
other surfaces.