16. There are many ways to obtain a labeled target sample. ...GGCUUAAUGAGCCUUAAAAAA...A mRNA TTTTTT...T viral enzyme reverse transcriptase recognizes poly-T bound to poly-A and begins to add complementary DNA nucleotides. The C nucleotides are dyed. A A A G G C T C T T A A G C C ... poly-A tail cDNA target poly-T primer
24. The PixSys 5500 Arraying Robot (Cartesian Technologies) Vacuum wash station The print head holds up to 32 pins in a 8x4 format Vacuum hold-down platform (50 slide capacity) Robotic arm
28. Spotting the Probes on the Microarray 8 X 4 Print Head microarray slide plate with wells holding probes in solution All spots of the same color are made at the same time. All spots in the same sector are made by the same pin.
42. Different Probe Pairs Represent Different Parts of the Same Gene gene sequence Probes are selected to be specific to the target gene and have good hybridization characteristics.
43. A Probe Set for Measuring Expression Level of a Particular Gene probe pair gene sequence ...TGCAATGGGTCAGAA G GACTCCTATGTGCCT... AATGGGTCAGAA G GACTCCTATGTG AATGGGTCAGAA C GACTCCTATGTG perfect match sequence mismatch sequence probe set probe cell
60. * Measuring levels of gene expression * Creating diagnostic tests to predict whether a patient has a genetic predisposition to obesity * Designing Drugs Gene expression and obesity