POSaM: a fast, flexible, open-source, inkjet oligonucleotide synthesizer and microarrayer
Journal:
Genome Biol
Publication date:
January 2004
Publication Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/507883 DNA arrays are valuable tools in molecular biology laboratories. Their rapid acceptance was aided by the release of plans for a pin-spotting microarrayer by researchers at Stanford. Inkjet microarraying is a flexible, complementary technique that allows the synthesis of arrays of any oligonucleotide sequences de novo. We describe here an open-source inkjet arrayer capable of rapidly producing sets of unique 9,800-feature arrays.