Additional file 9 of Transcriptome analyses of liver in newly-hatched chicks during the metabolic perturbation of fasting and re-feeding reveals THRSPA as the key lipogenic transcription factor

Additional file 9: Microarray reference RNA hybridization design. A Microsoft Excel file containing a single worksheet “20.7 K Array Hybridization Design”. A total of 50 Arizona 20.7 K Chicken Oligo Arrays (NCBI GEO Platform # GPL6049) were used in a reference RNA hybridization design. Each biological sample (liver RNA sample) was labelled with Alexa Flour® 555 (green) dye. An aliquot of the pooled reference RNA sample was labelled with Alexa Flour® 647 (red) dye and these were hybridized together on one of the 20.7 K oligo microarrays. The 50 microarrays were assigned to 10 fasting-refeeding treatment groups with five biological replicates (liver RNA from five cockerels). A balanced block design was used for hybridization of 10 microarrays across 5 consecutive days, where one liver RNA sample represented each of the 10 treatment groups on each hybridization day (10 arrays/day).