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Table 1 Retention Studies on Commercial Coated Slide Surfaces

From: Immobilized probe and glass surface chemistry as variables in microarray fabrication

Vendor

Chemistry

RFU/Pixel deposited × 103

RFU/pixel retained × 103

Percent Retention

Spot Diameter

Processed S/(S+N)

MCW in-house

Poly-L-lysine

19.0+/-7.7

11.1+/-2.7

58.4%

114+/-9

0.90+/-0.00

Electron Microscopy Sciences

Poly-L-lysine

15.3+/-4.9

2.12+/-1.1

13.9%

100+/-28

0.85+/-0.04

Polysciences

Poly-L-lysine

11.5+/-6.3

1.3+/-1.0

11.3%

125+/-6

0.86+/-0.06

Cel Associates

Poly-L-lysine

5.7+/-3.6

2.3+/-0.5

40.4%

100+/-35

0.79+/-0.09

Asper Biotech

Aminated

6.8+/-2.4

3.2+/-1.1

47.1%

98+/-22

0.93+/-0.05

Apogent Ezrays

Aminated

6.0+/-2.9

2.8+/-0.3

46.7%

109+/-20

0.92+/-0.02

Bioslide

Aminated

3.3+/-0.9

1.5+/-0.5

45.5%

93+/-7

0.87+/-0.02

Erie Scientific

Aminated

11.5+/-4.1

3.2+/-0.9

27.8%

81+/-15

0.90+/-0.01

Genetix

Aminated

4.1+/-1.2

1.2+/-0.2

29.3%

94+/-23

0.86+/-0.02

Corning Ultra GAPS

Aminated

2.3+/-0.3

1.5+/-0.2

65.2%

103+/-13

0.92+/-0.01

Corning GAPS II

Aminated

3.9+/-0.9

1.4+/-0.2

35.9%

117+/-18

0.92+/-0.01

Sigma

Aminated

20.7+/-3.3

5.4+/-1.0

26.1%

93+/-8

0.79+/-0.01

Telechem Super Amine

Aminated

6.7+/-2.1

1.7+/-0.5

25.4%

107+/-19

0.80+/-0.0

Full Moon Biosystems

Proprietary

6.4+/-1.4

2.1+/-0.2

32.8%

78+/-7

0.90+/-0.1