title: Mouse PancChip 6.2 13K cDNA microarray
status: Public on Nov 01 2011
contact.city: Pittsburgh
contact.first: Taichiro
contact.last: Nishikawa
contact.email: taichiro.nishikawa@chp.edu
contact.state: PA
contact.address: 530 45th Street
contact.department: Surgery
contact.country: USA
contact.institute: University of Pittsburgh
organism: Mus musculus
manufacture_protocol: The Mouse PancChip 6 contains approximately 13,000 mouse cDNAs chosen for their expression in various stages of pancreatic development, many of which are not found on commercially available arrays. Many of these clones where chosen to represent every assembly found to be expressed in the pancreas by sequence analysis of Consortium Libraries EPConClones. In addition, well characterized probes amplified from full-length sequence verified transcripts known to be involved in pancreas development and pathways relating to glucose homeostasis are included. More than 90% of the elements on the Mouse PancChip 6 are also expressed in liver, making this array useful for investigators interested in hepatic metabolism. The high level of homology between mouse and rat genes also makes this array suitable for use with tissues or cells derived from the rat. Note that quality control measures have resulted in sequence verification of 96% of the probes on Mouse PancChip 6.