Performance comparison of one-color and two-color platforms within the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project

Tucker A Patterson1, Edward K Lobenhofer, Stephanie B Fulmer-Smentek

  • 1National Center for Toxicological Research, US Food & Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Rd., Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, USA. tucker.patterson@fda.hhs.gov

Nature Biotechnology
|September 12, 2006
PubMed
Summary

This study compared one-color and two-color microarray designs using MAQC samples. Results show both methods offer equivalent data quality, suggesting design choice is not critical for microarray experiments.

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