title: Feature-size limitations of microarray technology--a critical review.
abstract: The appeal of microarray technology is the possibility of large-scale parallel determination of a variety of variables simultaneously. Hence, microarray technologies attract the interest of both the scientific and business worlds alike. High-throughput screening has been the major focus of the utilization of microarray technologies in recent years, and has provided the strong driving force for developments in this field. DNA chip and biochip technologies have been developed as a consequence of worldwide activity in genome research. This review focuses on microarray-based analysis and emphasizes some of its principal constraints, especially detection limits.
authors.affiliation: Fraunhofer-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Molecular Bioanalytics and Bioelectronics, Bergholz-Rehbrücke, Germany. frank.bier@ibmt.fhg.de
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Bier
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kleinjung
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020137:Base Pair Mismatch; D006801:Humans; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity