The new expression analysis system launched by Applied Biosystems will be marketed as the Applied Biosystems 1700 Chemiluminescent Microarray Analyzer. The product will sell at a list price of $177,000, according to the company. The company’s initial product for this platform, a whole-human-genome single microarray, will list for $890.
Parallel Synthesis Technologies of Santa Clara, Calif., this week introduced its Silicon Microarray contact printing technology for spotting DNA and protein microarrays. The four-year-old company machines its spotting pins from single-crystal silicon wafers using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques. The product line can spot directly from a 1,536-well source plate, and can print with 192 pins simultaneously, performing 400 spots per fill of 100 nanoliters. Print tip sizes range from 50x50 to 200x200 microns enabling the creation of spots ranging from 75 to 250 micrometers in diameter. The company has successfully test- printed materials such as proteins, lipids, and whole cell lysates.