title: Environmental application of array technology: promise, problems and practicalities.
abstract: Array technology has been applied in environmental research using innovative approaches in gene expression, comparative genomics and mixed community analysis. Greater fundamental understanding of sources of experimental and analytical error in array experiments should facilitate the future application of array technology to environmental analysis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, 676 Dabney Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. kcook5@utk.edu
authors.forename: Kimberly L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Gary S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Sayler
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018920:Coculture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*