ABSTRACT
Complementary DNA (cDNA) Arrays Complementary DNA arrays, better known as cDNA arrays, were initially developed in the laboratory of Patrick Brown and colleagues from Stanford University. Their first publication describing use of this technology with a small subset of Arabidopsis genes appeared in 1995 (11). Since then, cDNA arrays have become the most popular microarray platform, and it is now quite common for institutions and departments to have their own core microarray manufacturing facilities. The main reasons for the popularity of cDNA arrays are these:
DNA deposited on the solid support can be prepared easily by investigators, using standard PCRamplification.
