Roche Nimblegen has announced that its service business is offering 2-micron resolution scanning on the Nimblegen MS 200 microarray scanner.
The service, offered through the company's Iceland service facility in Reykjavik, Iceland, will offer the scanning for comparative genomic hybridisation arrays (2.1M, 3x720K, and 12x135K formats) and gene expression arrays (12x135K format).
The Nimblegen MS 200 microarray scanner is said to provide high-throughput processing optimised for current high-resolution Nimblegen microarrays as well as the next-generation Nimblegen arrays of the future.
The increase in resolution to 2-micron scanning will allow customers that access Nimblegen products an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio for their service experiments.
Increases in signal-to-noise on Nimblegen comparative genomic hybridisation arrays can ultimately lead to more confidence in detecting copy number variations and genomic breakpoints.
For gene expression, this increase can lead to greater confidence in determining differential expression of the genome of interest.
