Table 1 Equipment and third party software which are directly compatible with Microarray Facility.
Operations | Software/Workstation | File format |
|---|---|---|
Plate handling | Tecan | Text |
Arraying | Biogrid | MAF web form |
GeneMachines | Text | |
Affymetrix 417 (ex GMS 417) | Text | |
Microgrid II (Genomic Solutions) | CSV | |
Generic | Tabulated text | |
Image acquisition | Raytest TINA (agarose gels) Generic | PCB + BMP BMP/TIF/IMG+INF |
Quantitation | ArrayGauge 2.1 (Fuji) | Text |
BZScan 1.0 (INSERM) | Text | |
GenePix 3.0 (Axon) | Text | |
Imagene 4.0 (BioDiscovery) | Text | |
ProfileSoftware Corporate/Cancer (Ipsogen) | Text | |
Generic | Tabulated text | |
Normalization | ProfileSoftware Corporate (Ipsogen) | Text |
Generic | Tabulated text | |
Enclosures | Generic | Any (PDF, Text, DOC etc.) |