Steve Fodor and colleagues at Affymax built the first scanner in 1989, around the same time as they built their first microarray. A photograph on the Affymetrix Web site captures the device. It shows ...

The DNA copy that is made, called complementary DNA (cDNA), is then applied to the microarray. The cDNA binds to complementary base pairs in each of the spots on the array, a process known as ...

But how, exactly, does this process work? To better understand how microarray analysis is carried out, consider the example experiment described in the following sections.

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