Abstract
The creation of microspot arrays of bioactive materials has been vigorously pursued by a number of research organizations and commercial companies in the past decade (1,2). In addition to the high density and/or small area achieved by using microspot arrays, increased sensitivity is possible for some applications (3). Ink-jet printing technology has been used to produce microspot arrays of both DNA and antibodies (4), and the procedure to create oligonucleotide microspot arrays is described in this chapter.
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Cooley, P., Hinson, D., Trost, HJ., Antohe, B., Wallace, D. (2001). Ink-Jet-Deposited Microspot Arrays of DNA and Other Bioactive Molecules. In: Rampal, J.B. (eds) DNA Arrays. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 170. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-234-1:117
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