Microarray Facility

Automated printing of microarrays.
Automated printing of microarrays.

Fraunhofer IGB has a fully equipped microarray facility and offers solutions for analysis and interpretation of microarrays.

Equipment

  • Printer for DNA microarrays
    Microgrid II
  • Hybridization chambers
  • Microarray scanner
    Genepix 4300A
  • Software for probe design and statistical analysis of microarray data (these analyses meet the international standards set by the Functionals Genomics Data Society FGED)
    • M-CHiPS
    • R (The R Project for Statistical Computing)
    • ARB (SILVA rRNA database project)
    • Geneious
  • Reverse transcription quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR)