title: The future of fluorescence sensor arrays.
abstract: The rapid progress in sensor and biosensor array technologies needs a general strategy in the design of fluorescence reporters. Such reporters should provide a high density of sensor elements, allow analysis of targets of different affinities, and be internally calibrated, reproducible and have a rapid readout. Several criteria are introduced here for the comparative evaluation of fluorescence-sensing techniques. It is shown that only the two-band wavelength ratiometric sensing with a single reporter dye exhibiting rapid reversible excited-state reaction can satisfy all these criteria and is a prospective candidate for further development.
authors.affiliation: TUBITAK Research Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 41470 Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey. dem@rigeb.gov.tr
authors.forename: Alexander P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Demchenko
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005453:Fluorescence; D005544:Forecasting