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What is a disadvantage of DNA microarrays?
What is a strength of microarrays in gene expression profiling?
What is the principle of microarray based on?
Microarray technology initially involved spotting random cDNA clones to detect genes with differential expression levels in organisms with extensive DNA sequence information
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SAGE and MPSS are used for the discovery of new mRNA species in organisms where genome information is unavailable
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The amount of target sample binding to the probe present on the spot is not related to the total strength of the signal from a spot in microarray technology
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Microarrays allow the researcher to measure the absolute quantities of specific mRNAs in two or more samples for hundreds or thousands of genes simultaneously
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The production of too many results at a time requires a short time for analysis and is not very complex
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