Maskless photolithography genome tiling experiment

This experiment was designed to identify transcribed sequences across the human genome, particularly those distinct from previously annotated genes. To measure global transcriptional activity a series of high-density oligonucleotide tiling arrays was constructed to represent sense and antisense strands of the entire nonrepetitive sequence of the genome (1.5 Gb). A total of 51,874,388 36mer oligonucleotide probes, positioned every 46 nt on average, were synthesized via maskless photolithography at a feature density of approximately 390,000 probes per slide. The arrays were hybridized to fluorescence-labeled cDNA reverse-transcribed from triple-selected poly (A)+ liver tissue RNA. Keywords = transcription Keywords = gene expression Keywords = human Keywords: other