You want Ketchup with your DNA Chips? An Overview of Expression Microarrays

Bradely Coe | Pages 89-94 | BioTeach Online Journal | Vol. 1 | Fall 2003

Microarray technology has been rapidly adopted by the scientific community for its ability to analyze the expression of genes at a scale difficult to accomplish with traditional methods. Despite its many complexities, microarray analysis is a very powerful technique for analysing gene expression. The ability to scan the expression of thousands of genes simultaneously more than makes up for the high cost and time involved in a single microarray experiment by providing data at a fraction of the cost per gene of other methods.