Introduction to Microarrays
The Central Dogma
Hybridization A A A T T G G C C T A T G A T G C C A A A T T G G C C T A T G A T G C C
Introduction to Microarrays
Microarrays - The Concept Measure the level of transcript from a very large number of genes in one go CELL RNA
Why not Northern? RNA
How? gene specific DNA probes labeled target gene mRNA
Microarrays - The Technologies Stanford Microarrays Affymetrix
Stanford Microarrays Glass slides Deposition of probes Ready-to-use array Hybridization
Making Microarrays 1. Produce probes 2. Print by the use of a robot oligos cDNA library PCR products
Spotting - Mechanical deposition of probes
16-pin microarrayer
Sample preparation 1. Design experiment Question? Replicates? Test? 2. Perform experiment 4. Label RNA Amplification? Direct or indirect? Label? wild type mutant 3. Precipitate RNA Eukaryote/prokaryote? Cell wall?
mRNA cDNA Cy3-cDNACy5-cDNA SAMPLE CONTROL Stanford microarrays DESIGN and ORDER PROBES
Affymetrix GeneChip ® oligonucleotide array 11 to 20 oligonucleotide probes for each gene On-chip synthesis of 25 mers ~ genes per chip good quality data – low variance
Example Catalog Arrays Human Mouse Rat Arabidopsis C. elegans Canine Drosophila E. coli P. aeruginosa Plasmodium/Anopheles Vitis vinifera (Grape) Xenopus laevis Yeast Zebrafish NimbleExpress™ Array Program
Fluidic Station and Scanner
The Affymetrix Genechip ®
TTT T T T T T T T A A A A A A A AAA Photolithography in situ synthesis Spacers bound to surface with photolabile protection groups Mask #1 Mask #2
Photolithography - Micromirrors NimbleExpress™ Array Program
The Affymetrix GeneChip ® A gene is represented like this: - Perfect Match (PM) - MisMatch (MM) PM MM PM: CGATCAATTGCACTATGTCATTTCT MM: CGATCAATTGCAGTATGTCATTTCT
The Technologies - Costs - Flexibility - Data Quality Affymetrix Spotter
Facility setup: Stanford Microarrays < 100,000 USD Affymetrix< 250,000 USD The Technologies – Cost Cost pr. array Stanford Microarrays USD Affymetrix USD NimbleExpress™ Array Program - a bit more expensive
The Technologies - Flexibility Stanford microarrays: Are flexible, but new probes must be ordered each time Affymetrix arrays: Are not flexible, unless you order the NimbleExpress™ chip
The Technologies - Data Quality Reproducibility of data: (Pearson’s correlation coefficient) Stanford microarrays: Affymetrix: 0.95
The Technologies - Choice of Stanford microarrays: If you work with unsequenced species Low budget Affymetrix: Only sequenced species High data quality
Analysis of Data Normalization: Linear or non-linear Statistical test: student’s t-test ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) Analysis: Principle Component Analysis (PCA) Clustering and visualization
Sample Preparation Hybridization Array design Probe design Question Experimental Design Buy Chip/Array Statistical Analysis Fit to Model (time series) Expression Index Calculation Advanced Data Analysis ClusteringPCAClassification Promoter AnalysisRegulatory Network Comparable Gene Expression Data Normalization Image analysis The DNA Array Analysis Pipeline