Table 4 Microarray platform features
From: Design and evaluation of Actichip, a thematic microarray for the study of the actin cytoskeleton
Microarray characteristics | HG-U133A 2.0 (Affymetrix) | Human oligonucleotide set version 2.0 (Operon) |
|---|---|---|
Probe length | 25-mer | 70-mer |
Number of probes/probe sets | > 22000 | 25392 including 3871 controls |
| Â | Genbank | Â |
Main databases used for the design | dbEST | RefSeq |
| Â | RefSeq | UniGene (build Hs 147) |
| Â | UniGene (build Hs 133) | Â |
Number of target transcripts | 18400 including variants | 21329 including :11530 designed from UniGene and RefSeq |
Number of genes represented | 14500 | 9799 designed from UniGene |
Number of probes/target sequence | 11 | 1 |