title: GE Healthcare/Amersham Biosciences CodeLink™   UniSet Rat I Bioarray
status: Public on Sep 29 2005
contact.city: Tempe
contact.first: Randall
contact.last: Lockner
contact.email: randall.lockner@ge.com
contact.state: AZ
contact.address: 7700 S River Parkway
contact.department: Bioinformatics
contact.country: USA
contact.web_link: http://www.codelinkbioarrays.com
contact.institute: GE Healthcare Life Sciences
contact.phone: 480-722-2311
organism: Rattus norvegicus
description: CodeLink UniSet Rat I is designed for expression monitoring of a broad range of rat genes derived from NCBI and clustered to generate consensus sequences. Identifying patterns of differential mRNA expression over a large set of genes is an excellent method to identify targets, characterize action mechanisms, and make initial predictions of global drug effects. Well-annotated mRNA or coding sequences were chosen from the entire UniGene set to ensure usefulness to a large range of researchers in basic research, biotechnology, and drug development applications. Each sequence was carefully screened to reduce gene redundancy and to design high-quality specific probes.
  
  CodeLink users can submit data to GEO by exporting tab-delimited text files from the CodeLink software. The "Feature_id" header will need to be renamed to "ID_REF", and the "Normalized_intensity" header to "VALUE" before uploading the exported tables.
  
  In addition, users are encouraged to include additional raw data columns in their data uploads. These additional columns do not need to be renamed.
  
manufacture_protocol: http://www4.amershambiosciences.com/aptrix/upp01077.nsf/Content/codelink_user_protocols