title: MWG Human Cancer Array
status: Public on Oct 07 2003
contact.city: High Point
contact.last: MWG Biotech
contact.email: array@mwgbiotech.com
contact.state: NC
contact.address: 4170 Mendenhall Oaks Parkway, Suite 160
contact.country: USA
contact.institute: MWG Biotech
contact.phone: 1-877-MWG-BTEC
organism: Homo sapiens
description: The MWG Human Cancer Array represents 1.900 genes associated with cancer development and progression and is the most complete microarray solution for cancer research available on the market so far. Sophisticated bioinformatics not only fulfill the criteria of chip design specificity and sensitivity, but also reduce an unnecessary flood of data to the essential - an advantage customers of other chip manufacturers do not have. MWG's patented HPSF® synthesis technology and strict quality control deliver the highly purified and errorless oligonucleotides, which have been developed by the department of bioinformatics before. Information Sources: 1,660 genes were referenced by NCBI's Online Inheritance in Man (OMIN) as cancer related (147 were also identified as differentially expressed in cancer from Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)). A wide range of cancer specific genes are represented on the chip. Key words were searched in the literature to identify important genes in common cancer types including: Carcinoma specific genes: colon, breast, prostate, lung, bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, thyroid, nasopharyngeal, esophagus, ovary; Melanoma specific genes including MAGE; Neuroblastomas; Leukemia, lymphoma and sarcoma specific genes including cancer specific translocations; Genes involved in cell cycle control, cell adhesion, angiogenesis, signaling and immunity.
manufacture_protocol: see manufacturer's web site