Complete microarray designs/sets

If you are the owner of a microarray design or set, you can assign it a status of Complete. After you do this, no more editing or reviewing of the design/set can take place. Set this status only if you are ready to submit the design to Agilent Manufacturing. To complete designs/sets in a collaboration, see Lock/Complete a microarray or library in a collaboration.

Before you complete microarray designs/sets

• You must be a registered user in eArray.

• You must be the owner of the microarray design/set.

• The microarray design/set must have a status of either Draft or Review.
   

To complete a microarray design/set

1. Search or browse for the desired microarray design or set.
   
   Search results appear. You may find it useful to filter the list of microarray designs/sets to show only the ones with a status of Draft or Review — Above the search results, in Status, select either Draft or Review, then click Filter.

2. In the Actions column, by the desired design/set, click Edit if its status is Draft, or Review if its status is Review.
   
   The Edit Microarray design page appears.

3. In Status, select Complete. You can also edit other properties of the design/set.

4. Important: After you save the design/set with a status of Complete, you cannot change the status back to Draft or Review, and you cannot edit or review the design/set, even if you are its owner.

4. Click Save.
   
   A message warns you that you are about to complete the microarray design, and that you will not be able to make further changes to it.

5. In Please type comments here, type comments. Comments are required.

6. Click Yes.
   
   If you selected Customer specified in Feature Layout, a dialog box informs you that you cannot provide the microarray design (submit it) to Agilent Manufacturing until you upload the probe order. Click OK. For details, see Provide feature order.
   
   Otherwise, a dialog box informs you  that you have completed your microarray design. Click OK to submit the microarray design/set to Agilent Manufacturing—this changes its status to Submitted. If you are not ready to submit your design/set, click Cancel. Your design/set will have a status of Complete, and you can submit it later.
   
   eArray handles microarray sets in a specific way—for details, see How eArray handles microarray sets, below.
   
   Once a microarray design/set has a status of Complete, you cannot edit the design/set. However, for CGH, ChIP, and Expression arrays, the owner can change the control type of probe groups in the design/set. Search or browse for the desired design/set. In the Actions column of the search results, next to the desired design/set, click Change Control Type. For details on probe group control types, see Edit Microarray designs/sets.

See also

Edit microarray designs/sets

Review microarray designs/sets

Submit microarray designs/sets

How eArray handles microarray sets

eArray waits to create the individual microarray designs in a microarray set until you save the set with a status of Complete. The individual designs are then created with names that follow this pattern:

• <microarray set name>_1_of_3

• <microarray set name>_2_of_3

• <microarray set name>_3_of_3

At that time, eArray also performs the following actions:

• Associates the attachments of the set with each individual design.

• Populates features for each design.

• Writes files for each design as specified by the application type.

• Creates a single AMADID number to represent the entire set of arrays.

After the set has a status of Complete, you can perform the following actions with individual microarray designs contained within it:

• Search for each design separately.

• View each design separately.

• Download each design separately.

You cannot use the individual designs in a set to create other microarray designs, or delete or submit an individual design from a set.