New set contains 14,562 70mer probes representing grape gene transcripts, and provides a valuable tool for microarray analysis of grape gene expression
Qiagen has announced the release of the new grape (Vitis vinifera) array-ready oligo set, said to be the first available oligo set for the grape genome.
This new set contains 14,562 70mer probes representing grape gene transcripts, and provides a valuable tool for microarray analysis of grape gene expression. Qiagen uses state-of the-art methodology and proprietary software for probe design.
Each probe is melting-temperature normalised and includes a 5' amino linker to facilitate substrate attachment.
Probe design for the grape array-ready oligo set is based on sequence information from the Institute of Genome Research (Tigr) grape gene index (VvGI) release 3 (13 August 2003).
Complete annotation for the grape array-ready oligo set will be provided on the Qiagen oligo microarray database (Omad). Omad offers comprehensive information about each oligo, including a gene list and gene onthology (GO) information.
The grape array-ready oligo set is provided in 384-well plate format with 600pmol of probe per well.
A control plate with 24 controls in 16 replicates is also included.
Sample sets, which contain 96 optimised 70mers in 384-well plate format at 600pmol, are also available.
