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SimArray: a user-friendly and user-configurable microarray design tool

Richard P Auburn*, Roslin R Russell, Bettina Fischer, Lisa A Meadows, Santiago Sevillano Matilla and Steven Russell

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Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:102 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-102

Published: 1 March 2006

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This dataset includes heat maps for six different microarrays that were printed and hybridised by the UK Drosophila microarray facility. The heat maps demonstrate that spot location has a direct impact on the measured differential gene expression ratios and hence supports the argument for randomisation of the spot layout.

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