Validation of oligoarrays for quantitative exploration of the transcriptome

Vigdis Nygaard^{* 1} , Fang Liu^{* 1,2} , Marit Holden³ , Winston P Kuo^4,5,6 , Jeff Trimarchi⁷ , Lucila Ohno-Machado⁶ , Connie L Cepko^7,8 , Arnoldo Frigessi^3,9 , Ingrid K Glad¹⁰ , Mark A van de Wiel^11,12 , Eivind Hovig^1,13 and Heidi Lyng¹⁴

¹Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway

²PubGene AS, Vinderen, Oslo, Norway

³Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway

⁴Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

⁵Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

⁶Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

⁷Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

⁸Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

⁹Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway

¹⁰Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway

¹¹Department of Mathematics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

¹²Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

¹³Department of Medical Informatics, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway

¹⁴Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, Norway