title: [Maize] Affymetrix Maize Genome Array
status: Public on Jul 25 2006
contact.city: Santa Clara
contact.last: Affymetrix
contact.email: geo@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, support@affymetrix.com
contact.state: CA
contact.country: USA
contact.web_link: http://www.affymetrix.com/index.affx
contact.institute: Affymetrix, Inc.
contact.phone: 888-362-2447
organism: Zea mays
description: Affymetrix submissions are typically submitted to GEO using the GEOarchive method described at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/geo/info/geo_affy.html
  
  The GeneChip Maize Genome Array provides comprehensive coverage of over 100 cultivars present in NCBI's UniGene data set, including the most highly represented strains: B73, Ohio43, W22, W23, W64A, and Black Mexican Sweet.
  The Maize Genome Array has 17,555 probe sets to interrogate approximately 14,850 Zea mays transcripts, which represent 13,339 genes (12,113 of which are represented in distinct UniGene clusters).
  The sequence information for this array was selected from NCBI's GenBank® (up to September 29, 2004) and Zea mays UniGene Build 42 (July 23, 2004) databases. Probe sets on the array include 15 oligonucleotide pairs to detect each transcript, for added robustness and to facilitate detection of polymorphisms.
manufacture_protocol: see manufacturer's web site