Microarrays were constructed in house and consisted of 2,317 custom 70-mer oligonucleotides (designed to reduce cross-hybridisation; Gary Myers and Ian Paulsen, TIGR) spotted in triplicate with 50% DMSO on Ultra-GAPS slides (Corning) using a QArray Mini (Genetix) arrayer, representing 1,343 ORFs, as determined from the unpublished D. nodosus genome sequence (http://www.tigr.org).
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Description
Microarrays consisted of 2,317 custom 70-mer oligonucleotides (designed to reduce cross-hybridisation) spotted in triplicate on Ultra-GAPS slides (Corning) using a QArray Mini (Genetix) arrayer, representing 1,343 ORFs as determined from the unpublished D. nodosus genome sequence (http://www.tigr.org) and where possible two gene probes per ORF were synthesised. Oligonucleotides were spotted on a 2X6 metagrid, which was composed of 24X26 subgrids.