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Design of microarray probes for virus identification and detection of emerging viruses at the genus level

Cheng-Chung Chou1 email, Te-Tsui Lee2 email, Chun-Houh Chen3 email, Hsiang-Yun Hsiao1 email, Yi-Ling Lin2 email, Mei-Shang Ho2 email, Pan-Chyr Yang1,2* email and Konan Peck2* email

Center for Genomic Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 100, ROC

Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 115, ROC

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 115, ROC

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:232doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-232

Published: 28 April 2006

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Example description of step 5 of the probe design algorithm. This file contains a description of step 5 of the probe design algorithm. Example viruses are used to illustrate how this step identifies conserved sequences for a viral genus.

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Additional File 2:

Virus probe sequences on the test chip, and hybridization data of the probes to various samples. This file contains information on the probes and experimental hybridization data of the test chips used in an empirical approach to demonstrate the validity of the probe design algorithm.

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