Upgrading the Agilent scanner to 2 micron resolution


IMGM was among the first to successfully upgrade the Agilent DNA Microarray Platform to 2 micron scanning resolution.

This high-resolution scanning capability opens up the opportunity to process the new one million feature high-density microarrays. Additional information on the marked increase in scanning performance is available [here] on Agilent's official website.

By upgrading our system to 2 micron scanning resolution, you will be able to take advantage of the future benefits associated with this new class of microarray products:
Increase in feature density per slide (i.e. resolution for array-CGH)
 Increase in sample throughput (i.e. 8-pack format for Gene
     Expression (GEX))
 Reduction of cost per sample (i.e. more efficient processing)

For existing microarray products, the main benefit is a pronounced gain in data quality due to an increase in the number of pixels per feature.

At IMGM, we currently employ the Agilent  2 micron scanner for the following applications:
 miRNA profiling [more]
 Whole genome gene expression profiling [more]
 array-CGH [more]