DNA microarray
Biology Statistics (data analysis) Engineering (microfluidic, microfabrication, robotic automation…) Chemistry (surface modification) Optics (signal detection) Electronics, physics Research Integration
Gene Expression Gene Discovery Genotyping (SNPs) Drug Discovery Diagnosis Sequencing/resequencing Disease Barcoding, Drug Susceptibility Crop Improvement Basic Research
Preparation of DNA solution for microarray PCR amplification PCR product purification 96-well plate Quality control Collections of ESTs, library clones... DNA printing solution 384-well plate Re-racking
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Modified from Each spot represents different gene/clone
Flowers Leaves AAAAA mRNA isolation DNA microarray probe preparation cDNA labeling with fluorescent dyes
Modified from Flower Leaf DNA microarray hybridization
Modified from Labeled DNA hybridizes to corresponding DNA/gene
Laser excitation Cy5: ~650 nmCy3: ~550 nm Image overlay No changes Flower up-regulated genes Leaf up-regulated genes
Cy3 labeled cDNA from etiolated seedlings Cy5 labeled cDNA from green leaves Arabdidopsis 11.5K microarray
Girke et al Detection of cross hybridization
Gygi et al Correlation between protein and mRNA levels
Plant functional genomics Basic mechanism of plant growth and development Application in agricultural biotechnology 增加農作物產量 創造高營養價值之農作物 創造具高適應力之農作物 利用農作物作為生物反應器
DNA microarray and beyond….
Insertion site identification from knockout population Mahalingam and Fedoroff, PNAS (2001) 13,
Pollack et al DNA copy number detection
Iyer et al. Nature (2001) 409, DNA-protein interaction
MacBeath et al. (2000) Science 289, Protein-protein interaction (protein microarray)